Kenneth Raper tells how dictyostelids are isolated, cultivated, and conserved in the laboratory; how myxamoebae aggregate to form multicellular pseudoplasmodia; how fructifications arise by transformation of amoeboid cells into stalk cells and spores; and how similar cells can, under certain conditions, enter a sexual phase. For each known dictyostelid Professor Raper includes a complete description and photographic illustrations; one new species is described.
Originally published in 1984.
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*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*PREFACE, pg. vii*BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE,
pg. xi*CHAPTER
1. Historical Background, pg. 3*CHAPTER
2. Occurrence and
Isolation, pg. 17*CHAPTER
3. Ecology, pg. 30*CHAPTER
4. Cultivation, pg.
48*CHAPTER
5. Culture Maintenance, pg. 77*CHAPTER
6. Vegetative Stage, pg.
87*CHAPTER
7. Cell Aggregation, pg. 104*CHAPTER
8. Fructification, pg.
134*CHAPTER
9. Macrocysts, pg. 178*CHAPTER
10. Acrasiomycetes, pg.
225*CHAPTER
11. Dictyostelidae, pg. 242*CHAPTER
12. Dictyosteliaceae:
Dictyostelium, pg. 246*CHAPTER
13. Dictyosteliaceae: Polysphondylium, pg.
368*CHAPTER
14. Acytosteliaceae: Acytostelium, pg. 393*CHAPTER
15. Coenonia,
pg. 408*EPILOGUE, pg. 413*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 417*INDEX, pg. 443
