Title:
Diatom morphogenesis
Author:
Annenkov, Vadim, editor.
ISBN:
9781119488170
9781119488132
9781119488194
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Series:
Diatoms: biology and applications
Contents:
Front Matter -- General Issues. Introduction for a Tutorial on Diatom Morphology / Kalina Manoylov, Mohamed Ghobara -- The Uncanny Symmetry of Some Diatoms and Not of Others: A Multi-Scale Morphological Characteristic and a Puzzle for Morphogenesis / Janice L Pappas, Mary Ann Tiffany, Richard Gordon -- On the Size Sequence of Diatoms in Clonal Chains / Thomas Harbich -- Valve Morphogenesis in Amphitetras antediluviana Ehrenberg / Mary A Tiffany, Bonnie L Hurwitz -- Simulation. Geometric Models of Concentric and Spiral Areola Patterns of Centric Diatoms / Anton M Lyakh -- Diatom Pore Arrays' Periodicities and Symmetries in the Euclidean Plane: Nature Between Perfection and Imperfection / Mohamed M Ghobara, Mary Ann Tiffany, Richard Gordon, Louisa Reissig -- Quantified Ensemble 3D Surface Features Modeled as a Window on Centric Diatom Valve Morphogenesis / Janice L Pappas -- Buckling: A Geometric and Biophysical Multiscale Feature of Centric Diatom Valve Morphogenesis / Janice L Pappas, Richard Gordon -- Are Mantle Profiles of Circular Centric Diatoms a Measure of Buckling Forces During Valve Morphogenesis? / Janice L Pappas, Richard Gordon -- Physiology, Biochemistry and Applications. The Effect of the Silica Cell Wall on Diatom Transport and Metabolism / Mark Hildebrand -- Diatom Plasticity: Trends, Issues, and Applications on Modern and Classical Taxonomy, Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics, and Climate Change / Lawrence Victor D Vitug -- Frustule Photonics and Light Harvesting Strategies in Diatoms / Johannes W Goessling, Su Yanyan, Michael Kohl, Marianne Ellegaard -- Steps of Silicic Acid Transformation to Siliceous Frustules: Main Hypotheses and Discoveries / Vadim V Annenkov, Elena N Danilovtseva, Richard Gordon -- The Effects of Cytoskeletal Inhibitors on Diatom Valve Morphogenesis / Yekaterina D Bedoshvili, Yelena V Likhoshway -- Modeling Silicon Pools in Diatoms Using the Chemistry Toolbox / Argyro Spinthaki, Konstantinos D Demadis -- The Mesopores of Raphid Pennate Diatoms: Toward Natural Controllable Anisotropic Mesoporous Silica Microparticles / Mohamed M Ghobara, Richard Gordon, Louisa Reissig -- Index -- Also of Interest
Abstract:
DIATOM MORPHOGENESIS A unique book presenting the range of silica structures formed by diatoms, theories and hypotheses of how they are made, and applications to nanotechnology by use or imitation of diatom morphogenesis. There are up to 200, 000 species of diatoms, each species of these algal cells bearing an ornate, amorphous silica glass shell. The silica is structured at 7 orders of magnitude size range and is thus the most complex multiscalar solid structure known. Recent research is beginning to unravel how a single cell marshals chemical, physical, biochemical, genetic, and cytoskeletal processes to produce these single-cell marvels. The field of diatom nanotechnology is advancing as this understanding matures. Diatoms have been actively studied over the recent 10-20 years with various modern equipment, experimental and computer simulation approaches, including molecular biology, fluorescence-based methods, electron, confocal, and AFM microscopy. This has resulted in a huge amount of information but the key stages of their silica morphogenesis are still not clear. This is the time to reconsider and consolidate the work performed so far and to understand how we can go ahead. The main objective of this book is to describe the actual situation in the science of diatom morphogenesis, to specify the most important unresolved questions, and to present the corresponding hypotheses. The following areas are discussed: * A tutorial chapter, with a glossary for newcomers to the field, who are often from outside of biology, let alone phycology; * Diatom Morphogenesis: general issues, including symmetry and size issues; * Diatom Morphogenesis: simulation, including analytical and numerical methods for description of the diatom valve shape and pore structure; * Diatom Morphogenesis: physiology, biochemistry, and applications, including the relationship between taxonomy and physiology, biosilicification hypotheses, and ideas about applications of diatoms. Audience Researchers, scientists, and graduate students in the fields of phycology, general biology, marine sciences, the chemistry of silica, materials science, and ecology.
Local Note:
John Wiley and Sons
Added Author:
Electronic Access:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119488170Copies:
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