Description
Book SynopsisKenneth Raper tells how dictyostelids are isolated, cultivated, and conserved in the laboratory; how myxamoebae aggregate to form multicellular pseudoplasmodia; how fructifications arise by transformation of amoeboid cells into stalk cells and spores; and how similar cells can, under certain conditions, enter a sexual phase. For each known dictyostelid Professor Raper includes a complete description and photographic illustrations; one new species is described.
Originally published in 1984.
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Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, pg. xi*CHAPTER 1. Historical Background, pg. 3*CHAPTER 2. Occurrence and Isolation, pg. 17*CHAPTER 3. Ecology, pg. 30*CHAPTER 4. Cultivation, pg. 48*CHAPTER 5. Culture Maintenance, pg. 77*CHAPTER 6. Vegetative Stage, pg. 87*CHAPTER 7. Cell Aggregation, pg. 104*CHAPTER 8. Fructification, pg. 134*CHAPTER 9. Macrocysts, pg. 178*CHAPTER 10. Acrasiomycetes, pg. 225*CHAPTER 11. Dictyostelidae, pg. 242*CHAPTER 12. Dictyosteliaceae: Dictyostelium, pg. 246*CHAPTER 13. Dictyosteliaceae: Polysphondylium, pg. 368*CHAPTER 14. Acytosteliaceae: Acytostelium, pg. 393*CHAPTER 15. Coenonia, pg. 408*EPILOGUE, pg. 413*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 417*INDEX, pg. 443
