Owing to their importance as primary producers of energy and nutrition, algae and cyanobacteria are found as symbiotic partners across diverse lineages of prokaryotic and eukaryotic kingdoms.
Algal and Cyanobacteria Symbioses presents a compilation of recent, updated research in fields of diverse symbioses, including in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial habitats. It gives a comprehensive overview of algal and cyanobacteria symbioses, including reviews on their diversity and information on symbiotic specificity and stress tolerance. Also covered is a review of regulatory mechanisms in the communication between symbiotic partners.
The highly interdisciplinary character of this book is demonstrated through the range of algae and cyanobacteria as energy-providing symbionts in organismal lineages which are discussed. It is a valuable source of knowledge for researchers, university lecturers, professors and students of biology and life sciences, specifically biochemistry, mycology, cell biology and plant-microbe interactions.
Opening and General Aspects: Symbioses Involving Photosynthetic Organisms (J A Raven); Origin and Spread of Plastids by Endosymbiosis (U Cenci, D Moog and J M Archibald); Section Aerio-Terrestrial Symbioses: Symbioses of Lichenized Fungi With Trentepohlialean Algae (Grube M et al.); The Lichen Photobiont Trebouxia: A Reappraisal of Species Diversity and Molecular Studies (L Muggia et al.); Symbiotic Cyanobacteria in Lichens (J Rikkinen); Symbioses of The Green Algal Genera Coccomyxa and Elliptochloris (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta) (L Gustavs, U Schiefelbein, T Darienko and T Proschold); Investigating Mechanisms of Algal Entry Into Salamander Cells (R Kerney, J Burns and E Kim); Green Algae in Vertebrate Animals (C Bishop); Section Freshwater Symbioses: Paulinella Chromatophora Symbiosis (Bodyl A Et Al); The Azolla-Anabaena-Bacteria Association: A Case of Symbiotic Abduction? (F Carrapico); Symbiosis Between Green Algae and Hydra (Y Kobayakawa); Diatoms: By, With and As Endosymbionts (JP Kociolek and SE Hamsher); Symbiosis Between Testate Amoebae and Photosynthetic Organisms (E Lara and F Gomaa); Section Marine Symbioses: The Zooxanthellae - Hard-Coral Symbiosis (N Stambler); Embracing Complexity in Coral-Algal Symbioses (DC Claar, NS Fabina, HM Putnam, R Cunning, E Sogin, JK Baum and RD Gates); Microbial Interactions with Seaweeds (S Egan, V Kumar, J Nappi and M Gardiner); Ascophyllum and Its Symbionts - A Complex Symbiotic Community on North Atlantic Shores (D Garbary, NE Brown, HJ Macdonell and J Toxopeus); Section Stress Tolerance and Secondary Metabolism: The Resistance of Lichen Photobionts Against Extreme Abiotic Factors on Earth, in Space and in Simulations (A Sadowsky and Meebetaen); Secondary Metabolites Produced in Symbiotic Associations (P Hrouzek); Final Remarks: Overview to Algae Symbiosis (Seckbach);
