Endosymbiosis and cell biology : a synthesis of recent research. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Endosymbiosis and Cell Research, Tübingen, April 1980

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- WELCOME ADDRESS -- CONTENTS -- PART I. MORPHOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY OF PROKARYOTES, PROTISTS AND UNICELLULAR ALGAE -- An improved method for labelling and sequencing T1-generated RNA-fragments -- Macromolecule sequencing in phylogenetic studies: the phylogeny of spherical proka...
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- WELCOME ADDRESS -- CONTENTS -- PART I. MORPHOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY OF PROKARYOTES, PROTISTS AND UNICELLULAR ALGAE -- An improved method for labelling and sequencing T1-generated RNA-fragments -- Macromolecule sequencing in phylogenetic studies: the phylogeny of spherical prokaryotes -- Morphology and systematic position of some endocyanomes -- Electrophoretic patterns of phycobiliproteins as taxonomic fingerprints of cyanobacteria (and endocyanelles?) -- Morphology and phylogeny of flagellated protists -- The imprints of ciliate phylogeny revealed by comparative freeze-fracture study of the ciliary membrane -- Prokaryote evolution and the symbiotic origin of eukaryotes -- PART II. MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ADAPTION OF EUKARYOTES (ALGAE) IN INTER- AND INTRACELLULAR ENDOSYMBIOSIS -- Glenodinium foliaceum: a dinof lagellate with an endosymbiont -- Carbon metabolism of endosymbiotic algae -- The regulation of the algal population size in Paramecium bursaria -- Hypothesis: free maltose and cell surface sugars are signals in the infection of Paramecium bursaria by algae -- Algal symabionts in larger foraminifera -- Growth of the symbiont-bearing foraminifera Amphistegina lessonii d'Orbigny and Heterostegina depres'sa d'Orbiqnv (protozoa) -- Symbionts in planktonic foraminifera (protozoa) -- Ca deposition, re-mobilization and re-deposition in foraminifera and corals associated with algal endosymbionts (A) -- A non essential role of the symbiotic zooxanthellae in the strobilation of Cassiopeia andromeda (scyphozoa, coelenterata) -- An ecological view of specificity in algal-invertebrate associations with reference to the associations of Symbiodinium microadriaticum and coelenterates -- Intraspecific variation in a zooxanthella -- Release of photosynthetically-derived organic carbon from a hermatypic coral, Acropora cf. acuminata -- Correlation of the ultrastructure of the cells of solid corals and their symbionts depending on light -- Transmission of the algal and bacterial symbionts of green hydra through the host sexual cycle -- Phagocytic recognition and the establishment of the Hydra viridis - Chlorella symbiosis -- Regulation in the green hydra symbiosis -- Sulfur metabolism in the green hydra symbiosis: the incorporation of sulfate-sulfur by symbiotic and aposymbiotic Hydra viridis -- Transfer of photosynthate in green hydra -- Symbionts involved in phosphate uptake by green hydra -- Nutrient competition as a basis for symbiont selection in associations involving Convoluta roscoffensis and Amphiscolops langerhansi -- Acquisition of algae by Convoluta roscoffensis -- Symbiotic relationships between fungus and alga in basidiolichens -- PART III. MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ADAPTION OF PROKARYOTES (BACTERIA, CYANOBACTERIA) IN ENDOCYTOBIOSIS -- Euglena gracilis - an eukaryote containing prokaryote type superoxide dismutase and unconjugated pteridines -- The hydrogenosome, an H2-producing organelle of anaerobic flagellate protozoa2 -- Modulation of polyamine level and biosynthetic enzymes by bacterial endosymbiontes in trypanosomatid protozoa -- Effect of a bacterial symbiont on cell division in a ciliate -- Aspect of "bacteria-ciliates" symbiosis in the rumen: postulated role of the bacteria in the digestive system of the ciliate -- Nucleus-specific symbionts in Paramecium caudatum -- Omikron, an essential endosymbiont of Euplotes aediculatus -- DNA of omikron -- R bodies in Pseudomonas -- Electron microscopy of lice symbionts -- Ultrastructural data on pseudococcid endosymbionts (homoptera, coccoidea) -- Investigations of the light microscopical and ultrastructure of the demeton-S-methyl resistance aphids under consideration of the mycetome symbionts of the Phorodon humuli Sch -- Elimination of symbionts of tsetse flies (Glossina M. morsitans W.) by help of specific antibodies -- Symbiont-dependent arrhenotokous parthenogenesis in the eukaryotic Xyleborus -- Luminescent bacterial endosymbionts in bioluminescent tunicates -- Exosymbiotic luminous bacteria occurring in luminous organs of higher animals -- Differentiation of Rhizobium japonicum to bacteroids in the symbiosis of soybean nodules and in vitro -- Interactions and DNA transfer between soil bacteria and host plant cells -- Micromanipulation and polyethyleneglycol induced uptake of cyanelles into plant cell -- Cyanelle DNA from Cyanophora paradoxa: analogies to chloroplast DNA -- Physiological activity and stability of Cyanophora paradoxa and their endocyanelles under different conditions -- Nitrogen fixation in Rhopalodia gibba, a diatom containing blue-greenish inclusions symbiotically -- Cyanobacteria symbiotic in marine sponges -- Principles of endocytobiosis: structure, function and information -- PART IV. MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ADAPTION IN ENDOPARASITISM -- Structure, function and biochemistry of the cestode tegumentary membrane and associated glycocalix -- Virus multiplication and selected antiphytoviral drugs -- PART V. DNA-ORGANELLES AND NUCLEO-CYTOPLASM-INTERRELATIONSHIPS -- ER-plastidial membrane relationships in Ochrosphaera neapolitana Sch. (haptophyta) -- Gene expression interrelations between plastids, nucleus and cytoplasm -- Thylakoid-bound polysomes from Chlamydomonas: isolation and characterization -- Transport of RNA across the chloroplast envelope? -- Cooperation between genome and plastome -- Inter- and intraspecific variation of chloroplast DNA in Pelargonium -- Studies on intraspecific genome/plastome hybrids of Oenothera -- The maintenance of isolated chloroplasts in vitro and in planta -- Long-term chloroplast culture and the genesis of circadian Photosynthetic rhythms in Euglena: problems and prospects -- Uptake, retention and function of chloroplasts in animal cells -- Chloroplast "symbiosis" in sacoglossan molluscs -- Has the chloroplast of cryptomonads evolved from an eukaryotic symbiont? -- Labile micromorphology of mitochondria in Chlämydomonas reinhardii -- Yolk metabolization and mitochondrial release in Artemia -- Mitochondria and exoplasmic space -- Nucleocytoplasmic mitochondrial interrelations in the biogenesis of mitochondria -- Evidence for a joint control of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA synthesis in the petite negative yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe -- The distribution of the 2 Jim DNA plasmid in the genus Sacchoromyces -- The structure of mitochondrial DNA -- Intracellular mycoplasmas as morphological models supporting the hypothesis of symbiotic origin of mitochondria -- Three-dimensional structure of mitochondria and plastids in Chlamydomonas reinhardii and Polytoma papillatum -- A convoluted membranous structure associated to fibrils in the mitochondrial and plastidial matrix during sporogenesis in red algae -- The inter-relationship between mitochondria and plastids during greening -- Conjoined mitochondria and plastids in the normal, as well as the mutationally-af fected, meristemmatic regions of the "stripey" version of the barley mutant "albostrians" -- The establishment of organelles -- PART IV. STIMULATION OF CELL RESEARCH BY THE ENDOCYTOBIOTIC AND COMPARTMENTAL HYPOTHESIS -- Nonsymbiotic hypothesis of mitochondrial origin and their relevance to cell research -- Cell compartmentation and the origin of eukaryotic membranous organelles -- The stimulation of cell research by endosymbiotic hypotheses for the origin of eukaryotes -- Endocytobiology: a modern field between symbiosis and cell research -- Evolution and endosymbiosis -- Some considerations on the problem of endosymbiosis in the eukaryotic cell -- APPENDIX -- List of chairmen -- Contributors and participants -- Species index -- Subject index Ausführliche Beschreibung