Diatoms. Biology and Morphology of the Genera. 2007. Approx. 2500 SEM - micrographs. III, 747 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Contents: Preface/ Biology of Diatoms (Preamble/ The diatom cell/Collecting and studying diatoms/ Culturing/ Silicon: Occurrence, uptakeand deposition/ Cell symmetry/ Life form/ Valve structure/Complementarity and heterovalvy/ Portules/ Ocelli, pseudocelli andpseudonoduli/ Raphe/ Girdle bands (copulae)/ Internal valves/ Restingstages and resting spores/ The organic casing/ The protoplast: plastids,mitochondria, dictysomes, nucleus, vacuole/ The cell cycle/ Vegetativemultipliction and cell size reduction/ Sexual reproduction/ Oogamy/Physiological anisogamy and isogamy/ Automixis and parthenogenesis/Auxospore development/ Motility/ Ecology/ Paleoecology/ Concepts indiatom systematics/ Evolution and phylogeny/ Fossils/ Accounts of genera- preliminary notes/ Summary of classification/ Generic atlas (Centricgenera/Araphid genera/ Raphid genera)/ Appendix I: New taxa/ Appendix II: Listof recently described genera/ Appendix III: Index Nominum Genericorum/References/ Taxonomic Index/ Subject Index. - This is a digitalreprint of the 1990 original book.