Advances in Algal Cell Biology

Kirsten Heimann, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; Christos Katsaros, University of Athens, Greece.

Molecular research on algae over the last decades has provided significant insights into universal biological mechanisms. This knowledge has proved essential to the field of biotechnology where research on new applications in food culture, biofuel and pharmaceuticals is underway. This new book on algal cell biology provides an overview of cutting-edge research with a focus on cytoskeleton structure/function and cytokinesis of algae.

In-depth knowledge about aquatic plant species, from their sub-cellular organization to their interactions within ecosystems, is of utmost importance as the world faces the challenges of the 21^st century. From losses in biodiversity and changes in aquatic ecosystems to the potential of algal biofuel and artificial photosynthesis, some of the hottest topics of our time rely on basic research in aquatic botany. This new book series covers topics from all of the disciplines of marine and freshwater botany at all levels of biological organization. Primary subject areas are: systematics, floristics, biogeography, ecology, biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, chemistry, industrial processes and utilization, and biotechnology of algae and angiosperms. Mycology and microbiology topics are also part of the scope of the series.

1. David Garbary
Programmed cell death in multicellular algae
Authors: David J. Garbary, Moira E. Galway, Christina E. Lord and Arunika Gunawardena Galway

2. John Archibald
Gene transfer and algal cell evolution
Authors: John Archibald and Shinichiro Maruyama

3. Véronique Martin-Jézéquel
Phaeodactylum tricornutum polymorphism: An overview
Authors: Véronique Martin-Jézéquel and Benoit Tesson

4. Leonel Pereira
Cytological and cytochemical aspects in selected carrageenophytes (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta)
Author Leonel Pereira

5. Burkhard Becker
Evolution of vacuolar targeting in algae
Authors: Burkhard Becker and Kerstin Hoef-Emden

6. Burkhard Becker
Contractile vacuole function in green algae
Authors: Karin Buchmann and Burkhard Becker

7. Christos Katsaros
Cytokinesis of brown algae
Authors: Christos Katsaros, Taizo Motomura, Chikako Nagasato and Makoto Terauchi

8. Karl Hasenstein
Cytoskeletal control of sperm release in Chara contraria
Authors: Qiaojun Jin and Karl H. Hasenstein

9. Kirsten Heimann
Dinoflagellate bioluminescence - a key concept for studying organelle movement
Authors: Kirsten Heimann, Paul L. Klerks, Karl H. Hasenstein

10. Kirsten Heimann
Algal cell biology - an important tool to understand metal and herbicide toxicity
Author: Kirsten Heimann