Unravelling the algae: the past, present, and future of algal systematics

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Juliet Brodie, Jane Lewis
CRC Press, 26 nov. 2007 - 402 pages
Acting as titans in global control of the biosphere and colonizing virtually all corners of the earth, algae, extremely diverse and numerous oxygenic, photosynthetic organisms, can be major players in and drivers of environmental change. For hundreds of years, since their evolutionary origins by endosymbiosis, when a protozoan enslaved a cyanobacte
 

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
bound by plastids
7
major branches of the tree of life
21
the past the present and the future
57
molecular insights into a difficult problem
93
building future structures on firm foundations
103
conflict of classic and modern approaches
123
systematics of the charophyte green algae
155
Chapter 12 On dinoflagellate phylogeny and classification
215
Chapter 13 Molecular genetics and the neglected art of diatomics
231
Chapter 14 Classification of the Phaeophyceae from past to present and current challenges
267
Chapter 15 Molecular systematics of the Chrysophyceae and Synurophyceae
285
Chapter 16 A decade of euglenoid molecular phylogenetics
315
Chapter 17 The contribution of genomics to the understanding of algal evolution
331
a review of the past and prospects for the future
341
Glossary
355

evolution and classification
171
Chapter 10 Molecular systematics of Haptophyta
183
a challenge for molecular taxonomy
197
Index
365
Back cover
393
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