Symbioses and Stress

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxxiv

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2. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. On the Origin of Symbiosis

      • Jan Sapp

      Pages 3-18

   3. Symbioses and Stress

      • Martin Grube, James F. White Jr, Joseph Seckbach

      Pages 19-36

3. SYMBIOTIC ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTES

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Problems and Progress in Understanding the Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids

      • Bruce A. Curtis, John M. Archibald

      Pages 39-62

   3. The Origin of Eukarya as a Stress Response of Two-Membrane-Bounded Sexual Pre-karyote to an Aggressive Alphaproteobacterial Periplasmic Infection

      • Matej Vesteg, Juraj Krajčovič

      Pages 63-81

   4. Low CO2 Stress: Glaucocystophytes May Have Found a Unique Solution

      • Wolfgang Löffelhardt

      Pages 83-94

4. AQUATIC SYMBIOSES

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Animal–Bacterial Endosymbioses of Gutless Tube-Dwelling Worms in Marine Sediments

      • Takeshi Naganuma

      Pages 97-120

   3. Multibiont Symbioses in the Coral Reef Ecosystem

      • Orit Barneah, Itzchak Brickner

      Pages 121-144

   4. Cnidarian–Dinoflagellate Symbiosis-Mediated Adaptation to Environmental Perturbations

      • Sophie Richier, CÉcile Sabourault, Christine Ferrier-Pagés, Pierre-Laurent Merle, Paola Furla, Denis Allemand

      Pages 145-175

   5. Oxidative Stress-Mediated Development of Symbiosis in Green Paramecia

      • Tomonori Kawano, Kanami Irie, Takashi Kadono

      Pages 177-195

   6. Coral Symbiosis Under Stress

      • Noga Stambler

      Pages 197-224

   7. Azolla as a Superorganism. Its Implication in Symbiotic Studies

      • Francisco Carrapiço

      Pages 225-241

5. TERRESTRIAL SYMBIOSES

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Parasitism is a Strong Force Shaping the Fungus-Growing Ant–Microbe Symbiosis

      • Ainslie E. F. Little

      Pages 245-264

   3. Evolution and Consequences of Nutrition-Based Symbioses in Insects: More than Food Stress

      • Edouard Jurkevitch

      Pages 265-288

   4. Three in a Boat: Host-Plant, Insect Herbivore, and Fungal Entomopathogen

      • Shalom W. Applebaum, Dana Ichelczik, Richard A. Humber

      Pages 289-326

   5. Symbiotic Foraminifera and Stress

      • Alexander V. Altenbach, Christine Böhmer, Frank Gitter, Benjamin Läuchli, Hanne-Lore Wieczorek

      Pages 327-337

Symbioses and Stress centers on the question of how organisms in tight symbiotic associations cope with various types of abiotic and biotic stress. In its original sense, symbioses cover all kinds of interactions among unrelated organisms, whereas in a narrower concept, the term is often referred to as mutualism. Evolutionary biology recognizes symbiosis as an integrative process, and most fundamental evolutionary innovations arose from cooperative symbioses. Mutualisms contribute to stress tolerance, ecosystem stability, and evolutionary radiation of cooperating organisms. Modern eukaryotic cells are the result of the endosymbiotic union of prokaryotic ancestors as well as diverse exosymbiotic associations. This cooperative aggregation appears more successful than its independent parts. This new book presents functional and evolutionary aspects of mutually beneficial symbioses among unrelated organisms.

• Adaptation
• Biofilm
• Endosymbiosis
• Eukarya
• Eukaryota
• Evolution
• Extremotolerance
• Mutualism
• Stress
• Symbiosis
• ecosystem
• evolutionary biology
• microbe
• microbes
• the origin

• University of Jerusalem, Efrat, Israel

  Joseph Seckbach

• , Institute of Plant Sciences, Karl-Franzens-University, Graz, Austria

  Martin Grube

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