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This thematic volume fulfills a need for a focused, affordable collection of reference articles on fungi and protists.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

I. FUNGI

Yeasts

Aspergillus: A Multifaceted Genus

Clavicipitaceae: Free-Living and Saprotrophs to Plant Endophytes

Microsporidia: a model for minimal parasite–host interactions

Mycorrhizae

Endophytic Microbes

Lichens

Plant Pathogens: Newly Emerging Diseases

Fungal and Protist Plant Pathogens

Entomogenous fungi

Fungal Infections, Systemic

Fungal Infections, Cutaneous 

II. PROTISTS

Amitochondriate Protists (Diplomonads, Parabasalids, Oxymonads)

Amoebas (Lobose)

Ciliates

Secretive ciliates and putative asexuality in microbial eukaryotes

Coccolithophores

Diatoms: The Grass Menagerie

Dinoflagellates

Dyctiostelium

Foraminifera

Euglenozoa

Protozoan, Intestinal

Leishmania

Oomycetes (Water Mold)

Picoeukaryotes

Stramenopiles

Toxoplasmosis

Trypanosomes

Sleeping Sickness

Secondary endosymbiosis

Algal blooms

Food Webs, Microbial

About the Author

Dr. Schaechter is a Distinguished Professor, Emeritus at Tufts University, where he served as chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology from 1970 to 1993. He has worked on bacterial growth physiology and the relationship of the chromosome and the bacterial cell membrane. He has authored ten treatises and textbooks, most in collaboration with others, plus a book for the general public, In the Company of Mushrooms. He has served as President of the American Society for Microbiology. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor Emeritus, Biology Department, at San Diego State University and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego.

Reviews

"The book is well illustrated with diagrams, figures and tables, and the chapters are thorough, well-presented and easy to read. The content has been carefully selected from the huge range of topics that are covered under eukaryotic microbiology, and provides an excellent overview. It will be a useful reference work for researchers and students in many areas of eukaryotic microbiology, and of course for all other microbiologists fascinated by these incredible, beautiful and important organisms."--Microbiology Today