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Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality

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Editors:
  1. Joseph G. H. Wessels

    1. Department of Plant Biology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

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  2. Friedhelm Meinhardt

    1. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

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  • Due to the enormous development of fungal biology during the past ten years, all chapters of the second edition have been completely updated and revised or even newly written

Part of the book series: The Mycota (MYCOTA, volume 1)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XV
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  2. Vegetative Processes and Growth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Cell Cycle Control in Yeasts

      • S. A. MacNeill
      Pages 3-23

    3. Protein Secretion in Yeast

      • F. M. Klis
      Pages 25-41

    4. The Cytoskeleton in Hyphal Growth, Organelle Movements, and Mitosis

      • I. B. Heath
      Pages 43-65

    5. Osmotic Adjustment and the Role of Turgor in Mycelial Fungi

      • N. P. Money
      Pages 67-88

    6. Ionic and Electrical Dimensions of Hyphal Growth

      • F. M. Harold
      Pages 89-109

    7. Biogenesis of the Fungal Cell Wall

      • R. Sentandreu, S. Mormeneo, J. Ruiz-Herrera
      Pages 111-124

    8. Apical Wall Biogenesis

      • J. H. Sietsma, J. G. H. Wessels
      Pages 125-141

    9. Yeast/Mycelial Dimorphism

      • M. Orlowski
      Pages 143-162

    10. Translocation in Mycelia

      • D. H. Jennings
      Pages 163-173

    11. The Mycelium as an Integrated Entity

      • A. P. J. Trinci, M. G. Wiebe, G. D. Robson
      Pages 175-193

    12. Senescence of Mycelia

      • K. Marbach, U. Stahl
      Pages 195-210

    13. Heterogenic Incompatibility in Fungi

      • K. Esser, R. Blaich
      Pages 211-232

  3. Reproductive Processes and Sexual Progression

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Regulation of Meiosis and Sporulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

      • S. Klein, A. Sherman, G. Simchen
      Pages 235-250

    3. Regulation of Meiosis and Sporulation in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

      • R. Egel
      Pages 251-265

    4. Meiosis in Mycelial Fungi

      • P. J. Pukkila
      Pages 267-281

    5. The Mating-Type Switch in Yeasts

      • H. Schmidt, H. Gutz
      Pages 283-294

    6. Mating-Type Genes in Mycelial Ascomycetes

      • N. L. Glass, M. A. Nelson
      Pages 295-306
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About this book

Mycology, the study of fungi, originated as a subdiscipline of botany and was a descriptive discipline, largely neglected as an experimental science until the early years of this century. A seminal paper by Blakeslee in 1904 provided evidence for self-incompatibility, termed "heterothallism", and stimulated interest in studies related to the control of sexual reproduction in fungi by mating-type specificities. Soon to follow was the demonstration that sexually reproducing fungi exhibit Mendelian inheritance and that it was possible to conduct formal genetic analysis with fungi. The names Burgeff, Kniep and Lindegren are all associated with this early period of fungal genetics research. These studies and the discovery of penicillin by Fleming, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1945, provided further impetus for experimental research with fungi. Thus began a period of interest in mutation induction and analysis of mutants for bio­ chemical traits. Such fundamental research, conducted largely with Neurospora crassa, led to the one gene: one enzyme hypothesis and to a second Nobel Prize for fungal research awarded to Beadle and Tatum in 1958. Fundamental research in biochemical genetics was extended to other fungi, especially to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and by the mid-1960s fungal systems were much favored for studies in eukaryotic molecular biology and were soon able to compete with bacterial systems in the molecular arena.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Plant Biology, University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands

    Joseph G. H. Wessels

  • Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany

    Friedhelm Meinhardt

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality

  • Editors: Joseph G. H. Wessels, Friedhelm Meinhardt

  • Series Title: The Mycota

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11908-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1994

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-11908-2Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2945-8048

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-8056

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 435

  • Topics: Microbiology, Cell Biology, Biotechnology, Plant Sciences

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