Evolutionary Protistology: The Organism as Cell Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 1983

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Tubulins of Animals, Plants, Fungi and Protists Implications for Metazoan Evolution....Pages 169-176
Tubulin Evolution: An Electrophoretic and Immunological Analysis....Pages 177-182
From Proto-Mitosis to Mitosis - An Alternative Hypothesis on the Origin and Evolution of the Mitotic Spindle....Pages 183-193
The Fifth Base: A Natural Feature of Dinoflagellate DNA....Pages 195-203
Ultrastructural and Biochemical Nuclear Aspects of Eukaryote Classification: Independent Evolution of the Dinoflagellates as a Sister Group of the Actual Eukaryotes?....Pages 205-215
An Essay on the Evolution of Ciliophoran Oral Cytoarchitecture Based on Descent from Within a Karyorelictean Ancestry....Pages 217-228
Preliminary Observations of Feeding in the Psammobiotic Ciliate Tracheloraphis ....Pages 229-234
Methods of Systematic Analysis: The Relative Superiority of Phylogenetic Systematics....Pages 235-248
A Biometrical Analysis of Morphological Variation within a Section of Genus Euplotes (Ciliata, Hypotrichida), with Special Reference to the E. Vannus Complex of Sibling Species....Pages 249-267
An Evaluation of a Possible Phylogenetic Relationship Between the Euglenophyta and Kinetoplastida....Pages 269-288
A Green Alga with Minimal Eukaryotic Features: Nanochlorum Eucaryotum ....Pages 289-303
The Cell Characters of Two Helioflagellates Related to the Centrohelidian Lineage: Dimorpha and Tetradimorpha ....Pages 305-314
Axonemal Microtubule Pattern of Cienkowskya Mereschkovskyi and a Revision of Heliozoan Taxonomy....Pages 315-338
The Phylogeny of the Gregarinia (Sporozoa)....Pages 339-342
The Paramyxea Levine 1979: An Original Example of Evolution Towards Multicellularity....Pages 343-352
Back Matter....Pages 353-355