Myxomycetes

Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology is a comprehensive overview of the body of accumulated knowledge that now exists on myxomycetes. Its broad scope takes an integrated approach to the knowledge of this organismal group, considering a number of important aspects of their genetics and molecular phylogeny. It also treats myxomycetes as a distinct group from fungi, and includes molecular information that discusses the systematics and evolutionary pathways of the group. Additionally, biomedical and engineering applicability is discussed, thus expanding the audience and use of the book in a multidisciplinary context.

The book provides an authoritative resource for students, researchers and educators interested in the fields of protistology, microbial ecology, molecular microbiology, biogeography, mycology, biodiversity, and evolutionary biology, and will also interest the amateur naturalist and biologist.

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Dr. Carlos Rojas is a full professor at the University of Costa Rica. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Arkansas under the mentorship of Dr. Steve Stephenson. He has been actively working on the ecology of myxomycetes across the Americas, but he has also carried out research in northern Africa, southeast Asia, and central Europe. He has been working in the field of scientific communication as well and has tried to link his interest in myxomycetes with this task. He has edited books on myxomycetes and forest ecology as well as several scientific documents on mycology. He has also published peer-reviewed articles on such topics as environmental education, ethnomycology, urban ecology, biosystems engineering, remote sensing and monitoring, climatology and forest management. Dr. Steve Stephenson retired from the University of Arkansas in 2023. He received his B.S. in biology from the University of Lynchburg and both an M.S and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. He was on the faculty of Fairmont State College (now University) for 27 years before moving to the University of Arkansas in 2003. During his academic career, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Himachal University in India in 1987, a Visiting Scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division in 1995, and the William Evans Visiting Fellow at the University of Otago (Dunedin, New Zealand) in 2003. He is the author or coauthor of 20 books and more than 530 book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals. Among his recent books are Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography, and Ecolog**y* (2017, 2021). Mushrooms of the Southeastern United States (2018), and Secretive Slime Moulds: Myxomycetes of Australia* (2021).

Klappentext

Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography, and Ecology is a comprehensive overview of the body of accumulated knowledge that now exists on myxomycetes. Its broad scope takes an integrated approach to the knowledge of this organismal group, considering a number of important aspects of their genetics and molecular phylogeny. It also treats myxomycetes as a distinct group from fungi, and includes molecular information that discusses the systematics and evolutionary pathways of the group. Additionally, biomedical and engineering applicability is discussed, thus expanding the audience and use of the book in a multidisciplinary context.

The book provides an authoritative resource for students, researchers and educators interested in the fields of protistology, microbial ecology, molecular microbiology, biogeography, mycology, biodiversity, and evolutionary biology, and will also interest the amateur naturalist and biologist.

Inhalt

1. The myxomycetes
   
   2. Historical and study of myxomycetes
   3. Phylogeny and evolution
   4. Cell and Molecular Biology of Myxomycetes
   5. Molecular Techniques and Current Research Approaches
   6. Biochemistry and Physiology
   7. Taxonomy and systematics
   8. Ecology and distribution
   9. Biogeographical patterns
   10. Recording and isolation techniques
   11. Uses and potential
   12. Myxomycetes in education
   13. Myxomycete research in the XXI Century