The Diatom World

1. Collecting, Cleaning, Mounting, and Photographing Diatoms
Stephen S. Nagy

2. Morphology, Cell Wall, Cytology, Ultrastructure and Morphogenetic Studies
Eileen J. Cox

3. An Overview of Diatom Classification with Some Prospects for the Future
David M. Williams, J. Patrick Kociolek

4. A Review of the Evolution of the Diatoms from the Origin of the Lineage to Their Populations
Linda K. Medlin

5. Status of the Pursuit of the Diatom Phylogeny: Are Traditional Views and New Molecular Paradigms Really That Different?
Edward C. Theriot, Elizabeth Ruck, Matt Ashworth, Teofil Nakov, Robert K. Jansen

6. Size and Sex
David G. Mann

7. Classical Breeding in Diatoms: Scientific Background and Practical Perspectives
Victor A. Chepurnov, Peter Chaerle, Luc Roef, Annemieke Meirhaeghe, Koen Vanhoutte

8. Epizoic and Epiphytic Diatoms
Mary Ann Tiffany

9. Diatom Viruses
Yuji Tomaru, Keizo Nagasaki

10. Benthic Diatoms in Biofilm Culture
Roberta Congestri, Patrizia Albertano

11. Possible Buckling Phenomena in Diatom Morphogenesis
Richard Gordon, Mary Ann Tiffany

12. Diatom Frustules: Physical, Optical, and Biotechnological Applications
Helen E. Townley

13. The Importance of Scale in Understanding the Natural History of Diatom Communities
Rex L. Lowe

14. Patterns of Diatom Distribution in Relation to Salinity
Marina Potapova

15. Diatoms from Hot Springs from Kuril and Sakhalin Islands (Far East, Russia)
Tatiana V. Nikulina, J. Patrick Kociolek

16. Living on the pH Edge: Diatom Assemblages of Low-pH Lakes in Western Pomerania (NW Poland)
Andrzej Witkowski, Teresa Radziejewska, Brygida Wawrzyniak-Wydrowska, Horst Lange-Bertalot, Małgorzata Bąk, Jörg Gelbrecht

17. The Diatom Algae of Lake Kinneret, Israel
Yaron Yehoshua, Alla Alster

18. Rheophile Apennine Diatoms and Their Use as Bioindicators of Water Quality
Antonio Dell’Uomo, Mariacristina Torrisi

19. Ecophysiological Performance of Benthic Diatoms from Arctic Waters
Carolin Schlie, Jana Woelfel, Franziska Rüdiger, Rhena Schumann, Ulf Karsten

20. Diatoms as Endosymbionts
John J. Lee

21. Marine Planktonic Diatoms, Including Potentially Toxic Species
Maria Célia Villac, Irena Kaczmarska

22. Toxic Diatom Pseudo-nitzschia and Its Primary Consumers (Vectors)
Sibel Bargu, Emily Smith, Koray Ozhan

23. Summary
Joseph Seckbach, J. Patrick Kociolek

Keywords: Life Sciences, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Biodiversity, Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Eukaryotic Microbiology, Plant Genetics & Genomics