Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 356 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1011 g
Reihe: The Mycota
Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 356 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1011 g
Reihe: The Mycota
ISBN: 978-3-031-41647-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Fungal Associations includes updates of classic topics, but also introduces less frequently discussed associations and broader reflections on the nature of fungi and their associates.
- The volume begins with a look at more than abillion years of fungal evolution and associations through the lens of immunology.
- Can fungi involved in obligate symbioses be cultivated apart from the host? Genomes help to answer the question.
- The ultimate intimacy between fungi and certain unrelated organisms has resulted in DNA exchange that can be traced in extant genomes.
- Fungi and bacteria use volatile compounds to lure participants into interactions.
- Some viruses modify the phenotype of their fungal hosts and affect host fitness.
- Details of interactions between classical examples of fungus—plant symbioses (lichens, several types of mycorrhizae, and toxic endophytes) benefit from advanced microscopic and molecular techniques.
- Discussions of fungi associated with insects (entomopathogens, a Drosophila model to study entomopathogens), nematode-trappingfungi and their prey, and a group of termite-associated fungi that produce secondary metabolites with potential uses as pharmaceuticals, complete the volume.
Fungal Associations is a well-illustrated, thought-provoking resource for specialists and generalists, including researchers, lecturers, and students interested in ecology, evolution, microbiology, and mycology. The volume would be an excellent text for a seminar course for advanced undergraduate or graduate students.
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Chapter 1. When Plants and Animals First Met Fungi: Insights from the Evolution of Host Immune Systems.- Chapter 2. Metabolic Constraints and Dependencies Between “Uncultivable” Fungi and Their Hosts.- Chapter 3. Horizontal Gene Transfer in Fungi and Its Ecological Importance.- Chapter 4. An Overview of Fungal Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).- Chapter 5. Viruses that Affect Phenotype and Fitness of Fungi.- Chapter 6. Lichens.- Chapter 7. Umbilicaria muhlenbergii: A Model for Studying Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Initial Fungal Symbiotic Interactions with Algal Cells.- Chapter 8. After Air, Light and Water, the Next Most Important Thing Is Grass: An Introduction to the Epichloë-Grass Symbiosis.- Chapter 9. Signals and Host Cell Remodeling in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis.- Chapter 10. Masters of Manipulation: How Our Molecular Understanding of Model Symbiotic Fungi and Their Hosts Is Changing the Face of ‘Mutualism’.- Chapter 11. Nematode-Trapping Fungi and Caenorhabditis Elegans as a Model System for Predator—Prey Interactions.- Chapter 12. When a Mind Is Not Its Own: Mechanisms of Host Behavior Control by Parasitic Fungi.- Chapter 13. Genetics and Infection Biology of the Entomopathogenic Fungi.- Chapter 14. Xylaria Sclerotia Formed Within Termite Nests: A Review of Their Biology and Human Uses.