Evolution and Speciation in Fungi and Eukaryotic Biodiversity

About this book

This book looks at fungi from the angle of biodiversity. As no college/university offers degree courses in mycology, the book explains the need for such innovative courses, which are academically and economically important. The book highlights the global cost of beneficial and harmful fungi, and brings to light the many companies producing fungal-based enzymes.

Contents

- General Introduction
- Spatial Distribution
- Fungi: Modes of Life
- Acquisition of Micronutrients
- Mycology: Teaching - Degrees
- Clonal Multiplication
- Sex - Mating Type - Sexuality
- Gametangia - Gametogenesis
- Sporogenesis - Quantity - Dispersal
- Sex Determination - Pheromones
- Lichens
- Past: Fungal Evolution
- Present: Desiccation and Dormancy
- Future: Climate Change
- Eukaryotes: Species Diversity

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Biography

Recipient of the S.S. Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian award for scientists, one of the 10 National Professorships, T.J. Pandian has served as editor/member of editorial boards of many international journals. His books on Animal Energetics (Academic Press) identify him as a prolific but precise writer. His five volumes on Sexuality, Sex Determination and Differentiation in Fish, published by CRC Press, are ranked with five stars. He has authored a multi-volume series on Reproduction and Development of Aquatic Invertebrates, of which the volumes on Crustacea, Mollusca, Echinodermata and Prochordata, Annelida, Platyhelminthes and Minor Phyla have been published. The CRC Press has recently published his new book series on Evolution and Speciation in Animals, Evolution and Speciation in Plants and Evolution and Speciation in Protozoa.