Monograph
of the Oxytrichidae
(Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) |
by
Helmut
Berger
Technisches
Büro für Ökologie
Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology
Radetzkystrasse 10, 5020 Salzburg, Austria, https://www.protozoology.com
Published
by
Springer
P.O.
Box 17, 3300 A.A. Dordrecht, The Netherlands, http://www.springer.com
About this
book
The monophylum Oxytrichidae
(Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) contains freshwater-, marine-, and
soil-dwelling species. Some taxa are extremely widespread in
freshwater (e.g. Oxytricha, Stylonychia) or in
terrestrial habitats (e.g. Gonostomum). Oxytricha
and Stylonychia have been used for many molecular, ultrastructural,
and genetic investigations.
This is the first book since Ehrenberg's (1838) monumental work
to summarize the morphological, morphogenetic, faunistic, and
ecological data from the past 220 years, scattered in more than
2500 references from all over the world. One central dichotomous
key leads directly to 32 genera comprising about 169 species,
which are illustrated by more than 2400 figures, including original
ones. Taxonomists, ecologists, limnologists, soil biologists,
and cell biologists will find a list of synonyms, a discussion
of nomenclatural and taxonomic problems, and a detailed morphological
and ecological description, including almost all published faunistic
records. This enables both the specialist and the practitioner
to determine species without referring back to the original literature.
The book offers the interested scientist a thorough and up-to-date
revision of the oxytrichids.
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Keywords: Africa, Allotricha,
Alveolata, America, Ancystropodium, Apoamphisiella, Asia, Australia,
Australocirrus, Austria, Bestimmungsschlüssel, bibliography,
biodiversity, Biodiversität, biogeography, Biogeographie,
biology, Bodenbiologie, Boden, cell division, China, ciliates,
Ciliophora, cladistics, clone, Coniculostomum, conjugation, contractile
vacuole, cortical granules, cultivation, Cyrtohymena, cyst, cytoplasm,
determination, Diversität, diversity, dna, ecology, Ehrenberg,
Europa, Europe, evolution, Gastrostyla, Gonostomum, guide, Hemigastrostyla,
Histriculus, Hypotricha, hypotriche, Hypotrichia, Hypotrichida,
hypotrichs, identification, Identifikation, impregnation, Kahl,
Kerona, key, Klon, Kluwer, Laurentiella, life cycle, limnetic,
Limnologie, limnology, marine biology, microbiology, molecular
biology, Morphogenese, morphogenesis, movement, nomenclature,
Nomenklatur, Notohymena, nutrition, Onychodromopsis, Onychodromus,
Oxytricha, oxytrichids, Oxytrichinae, Paramecium, Parastylonychia,
Paraurostyla, Parentocirrus, Parurosoma, Pattersoniella, Phylogenie,
phylogeny, Plankton, Pleurotricha, Protista, Protozoa, Pseudostrombidium,
Pseudouroleptus, resting cyst, review, revision, Rigidocortex,
rna, Rubrioxytricha, Salzburg, sea, See, soil, Spirotricha, Spirotrichea,
ssrdna, Stein, Steinia, Sterkiella, Stichotrichia, stichotrichs,
Stylonychia, Stylonychinae, stylonychids, systematics, Systematik,
Tachysoma, Taxonomie, taxonomy, Teilung, Territricha, Tetrahymena,
Trichoda, Urosoma, Urosomoida, Wimpertierchen, Ziliaten
Book review
SONG Weibo (2000): Monograph
of the Oxytrichidae (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia). By H. Berger.
Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999). NLG880.00/USDollar528.
pp. 1,079. ISBN: 0-7923-5795-7. - Microbiology Today, August
2000.
Oxytrichidae - a species-rich,
well-known, yet highly confusing family of ciliates - has always
attracted the interest of protozoologists working in the fields
of ecology, taxonomy and cell biology. This up-to-date book provides
comprehensive information on both historical and recent research,
including a carefully defined synonym list for each species,
discussion (and corrections) of nomenclatural problems, detailed
morphological and taxonomical descriptions with almost all published
faunistic records, as well as tables providing complete morphometric
data available. As another conspicuous feature, almost all ecological,
physiological and faunistic information on each species scattered
in the literature in the last 300 years is mentioned, which enables
the user to determine species without referring back to the original
literature. Thus, this book is not only a super field guide,
but also a must-get reference book both for the novice and experienced
taxonomists alike and should be on the shelves of every ciliatology
laboratory.
Weibo SONG, The Natural History Museum, London
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Berger Helmut, Consulting Engineering Office for Ecology, Radetzkystrasse
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Last update: 2018.05.23 |
