Symbiosis: Mechanisms and Model Systems

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Prioritizing Symbiosis to Sustain Biodiversity: Are Symbionts Keystone Species?....Pages 3-12
Morphological Aspects of Symbiosis....Pages 13-44
Symbioses and their Consequences for Community and Applied Ecology....Pages 45-61
Front Matter....Pages 63-63
What’s in a Tree?....Pages 65-79
The Commonality of Cyanobacterial Endosymbioses Does Not Support the Endosymbiotic Theory for Origin of Eukaryotic Organelles....Pages 81-97
Non Symbiotic Origin of Locomotory Organelles....Pages 99-110
The Cyanelle (Muroplast) of Cyanophora Paradoxa : A Paradigm for Endosymbiotic Organelle Evolution....Pages 111-130
The Syntrophy Hypothesis for the Origin of Eukaryotes....Pages 131-146
Thermodynamic Ecology of Hydrogen-Based Syntrophy....Pages 147-161
Nutritional Syntrophies and Consortia as Models for the Origin of Mitochondria....Pages 163-183
Reversion of Endosymbiosis?....Pages 185-206
Symbiosomes....Pages 207-220
The Absence of Nitrogen-Fixing Organelles Due to Timing of the Nitrogen Crisis....Pages 221-228
Nucleus Symbiosis Hypothesis Formation of Eukaryotic Cell Nuclei by the Symbiosis of Archaea in Bacteria....Pages 229-235
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Phototrophic Consortia: A Tight Cooperation Between Non-Related Eubacteria....Pages 239-255
Structure and Phylogeny of Cyanophora Species....Pages 257-272
The Microenvironment and Photosynthetic Performance of Prochloron SP. in Symbiosis with Didemnid Ascidians....Pages 273-290
Front Matter....Pages 291-291
Survival Strategies in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbionts....Pages 293-307
Three Part Harmony — Ascophyllum and Its Symbionts....Pages 309-321
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Endobacteria....Pages 323-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Origin and Evolution of Green Lichen Algae....Pages 341-357
Lichenization of the Trentepohliales....Pages 359-371
Trebouxia: Reflections on a Perplexing and Controversial Lichen Photobiont....Pages 373-383
Front Matter....Pages 385-385
Algae Living on Trees....Pages 387-395
Cycad Coralloid Roots Housing Cyanobacteria....Pages 397-409
Evolution of Epichloë/Neotyphodium Endophytes and Other Clavicipitalean Biotrophs....Pages 411-424
The Effect of Endophytic Fungi on Host Plant Morphogenesis....Pages 425-447
Front Matter....Pages 449-449
Anaerobic Ciliates and Their Metahanogenic Endosymbionts....Pages 451-464
Endosymbiosis of Beta-Proteobacteria in Trypanosomatid Protozoa....Pages 465-473
Ectosymbiosis in Ciliated Protozoa....Pages 475-488
Living Sands: Symbiosis between Foraminifera and Algae....Pages 489-506
Protistan-Prokaryotic Symbioses in Deep-Sea Sulfidic Sediments....Pages 507-517
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Sponge/Algal Symbioses: A Diversity of Associations....Pages 521-537
The Taxonomy and Evolution of the Zooxanthellae-Coral Symbiosis....Pages 539-557
Algal Symbiosis in Flatworms....Pages 559-574
Trichomycetes: Fungi in Relationship with Insects and Other Arthropods....Pages 575-588
Evolution of Ascomycota-Arthropoda Symbioses....Pages 589-609
The Laboulbeniales — An Enigmatic Group of Arthropod-Associated Fungi....Pages 611-620
 Wolbachia -Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility....Pages 621-644
How do Wolbachia Symbionts Increase the Proportion of Females in Their Hosts?....Pages 645-662
Front Matter....Pages 519-519
Genome of Buchnera sp . Aps, an Intracellular Symbiotic Bacterium of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon Pisum ....Pages 663-674
The Functions of Symbiotic Micro-Organisms in Insects....Pages 675-684
Ants, Agriculture, and Antibiotics....Pages 685-699
Termite Hindgut Symbionts....Pages 701-713
Symbiosis in the Termite Gut....Pages 715-730
Cultivation of Symbiotic Fungi by Termites of the Subfamily Macrotermitinae....Pages 731-756
Cospeciation Between Hosts and Symbionts:....Pages 757-774