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| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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List of authors and their addresses |
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| I. General Aspects |
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Prioritizing Symbiosis to Sustain Biodiversity: Are Symbionts Keystone Species? |
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3 | (10) |
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Morphological Aspects of Symbiosis |
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13 | (32) |
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Symbioses and Their Consequences for Community and Applied Ecology |
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45 | (18) |
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| II. Origin & Evolution |
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63 | (174) |
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What's in a Tree? Does Horizontal Gene Transfer Determine Microbial Taxonomy? |
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65 | (16) |
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The Commonality of Cyanobacterial Endosymbioses Does Not Support the Endosymbiotic Theory for Origin of Eukaryotic Organelles |
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81 | (18) |
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Non Symbiotic Origin of Locomotory Organelles |
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99 | (12) |
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The Cyanelle (Muroplast) of Cyanophora Paradoxa: A Paradigm for Endosymbiotic Organelle Evolution |
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111 | (20) |
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The Syntrophy Hypothesis for the Origin of Eukaryotes |
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131 | (16) |
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Thermodynamic Ecology of Hydrogen-Based Syntrophy |
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147 | (16) |
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Nutritional Syntrophies and Consortia as Models for the Origin of Mitochondria |
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163 | (22) |
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Reversion of Endosymbiosis? The Case of Bleaching in Euglena |
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185 | (22) |
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207 | (14) |
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The Absence of Nitrogen-Fixing Organelles Due to Timing of the Nitrogen Crisis |
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221 | (8) |
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Nucleus Symbiosis Hypothesis: Formation of Eukaryotic Cell Nuclei by the Symbiosis of Archaea in Bacteria |
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229 | (8) |
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| III. Bacteria, Cyanobacteria & Algae |
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237 | (54) |
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Phototrophic Consortia: A Tight Cooperation Between Non-Related Eubacteria |
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239 | (18) |
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Structure and Phylogeny of Cyanophora Species |
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257 | (16) |
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The Microenvironment and Photosynthetic Performance of Prochloron sp. in Symbiosis with Didemnid Ascidians |
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273 | (18) |
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| IV. Fungi Symbiosis |
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291 | (48) |
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Survival Strategies in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbionts |
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293 | (16) |
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Three Part Harmony - Ascophyllum and its Symbionts |
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309 | (14) |
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Endobacteria |
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323 | (16) |
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| V. Lichens |
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339 | (46) |
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Origin and Evolution of Green Lichen Algae |
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341 | (18) |
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Lichenization of the Trentepohliales |
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359 | (14) |
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Trebouxia: Reflections on a Perplexing and Controversial Lichen Photobiont |
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373 | (12) |
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| VI. Symbiosis in Plants |
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385 | (64) |
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Algae Living on Trees and in Other Strange Places |
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387 | (10) |
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Cycad Coralloid Roots Housing Cyanobacteria |
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397 | (14) |
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Evolution of Epichloe/Neotyphodium Endophytes and Other Clavicipitalean Biotrophs |
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411 | (14) |
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The Effect of Endophytic Fungi on Host Plant Morphogenesis |
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425 | (24) |
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| VII. Association with Protozoa |
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449 | (70) |
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Anaerobic Ciliates and Their Methanogenic Endosymbionts |
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451 | (14) |
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Endosymbiosis of Beta-Proteobacteria in Trypanosomatid Protozoa |
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465 | (10) |
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Ectosymbiosis in Ciliated Protozoa |
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475 | (14) |
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Living Sands: Symbiosis Between Foraminifera and Algae |
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489 | (18) |
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Protistan-Prokaryotic Symbioses in Deep-Sea Sulfidic Sediments |
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507 | (12) |
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| VIII. Symbiosis in Insects and Higher Animals |
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519 | (256) |
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Sponge/Algal Symbioses: A Diversity of Associations |
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521 | (18) |
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The Taxonomy and Evolution of the Zooxanthellae-Coral Symbiosis |
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539 | (20) |
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Algal Symbiosis in Flatworms |
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559 | (16) |
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Trichomycetes: Fungi in Relationship with Insects and Other Arthropods |
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575 | (14) |
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Evolution of Ascomycota-Arthropoda Symbioses |
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589 | (22) |
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The Laboulbeniales - An Enigmatic Group of Arthropod-Associated Fungi |
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611 | (10) |
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Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility |
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621 | (24) |
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How Do Wolbachia Symbionts Increase the Proportion of Females in Their Hosts? |
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645 | (18) |
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Genome of Buchnera sp. Aps, An Intracellular Symbiotic Bacterium of the Pea Aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum |
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663 | (12) |
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The Functions of Symbiotic Micro-Organisms in Insects. A Perspective from Studies on Aposymbiotic Aphids |
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675 | (10) |
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Ants, Agriculture and Antibiotics. A Quadripartite Symbiosis |
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685 | (16) |
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Termite Hindgut Symbionts |
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701 | (14) |
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Symbiosis in the Termite Gut |
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715 | (16) |
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Cultivation of Symbiotic Fungi by Termites of the Subfamily Macrotermitinae |
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731 | (26) |
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Cospeciation Between Hosts and Symbionts: The Sepiolid Squid-Vibrio Mutualism |
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757 | (18) |
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| Index |
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