Symbioses and Stress (eBook)

Foreword / John. J. Lee
Preface / Joseph Seckbach and Martin Grube
Acknowledgements
List of authors and their addresses
PART 1: GENERAL INTRODUCTION
On the Origin of Symbiosis [Jan Sapp]
Symbioses and Stress [Martin Grube, James F. White, and Joseph Seckbach]
PART 2: SYMBIOTIC ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTES
Problems and Progress in Understanding the Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids [Bruce A. Curtis and John M. Archibald]
The Origin of Eukarya as a Stress Response of Two-Membrane-Bounded Sexual Pre-Karyote to an Aggressive a-Proteobacterial Periplasmic Infection [Matej Vesteg and Juraj Kraj?ovi?]
Low CO2 Stress: Glaucocystophytes May Have Found a Unique Solution [Wolfgang Löffelhardt]
PART 3: AQUATIC SYMBIOSES
Animal-Bacterial Endosymbioses of Gutless Tube-Dwelling Worms in Marine Sediments [Takeshi Naganuma]
Multibiont Symbioses in the Coral Reef Ecosystem [Orit Barneah and Itzchak Brickner]
Cnidarian/Dinoflagellate Symbiosis-Mediated Adaptation to Environmental Pertubations [Sophie Richier, Cécile Sabourault, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Pierre-Laurent Merle, Paola Furla and Denis Allemand] Oxidative Stress-Mediated Development of Symbiosis in Green Paramecia [Tomonoro Kawano, K. Irie and Takashi Kadono]
Coral Symbiosis under Stress [Noga Stambler]
Azolla as a Superorganism: Its Implication in Symbiotic Studies [Francisco Carrapiço]
PART 4: TERRESTRIAL SYMBIOSES
Parasitism is a Strong Force Shaping the Fungus-Growing Ant-Microbe Symbiosis [Ainslie E.F. Little]
Evolution and Consequences of Nutrition-Based Symbioses in Insects: More than Food Stress [Edouard Jurkevitch]
Three in a Boat: Host-Plant, Insect Herbivore and Fungal Entomopathogen [Shalom W. Applebaum, Dana Ichelczik and Richard A. Humber]
Symbiotic Foraminifera and Stress [Alexander V. Altenbach, Christine Böhmer, Frank Gitter, Benjamin Läuchli and Hanne-Lore Wieczorek]
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis under Stress Conditions: Benefits and Costs [Hinanit Koltai and Yoram Kapulnik]
Modulation of AquaporinGenes by the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Relation to Osmotic Stress Tolerance: Aquaporin in Plants under Osmotic Stress [Juan M. Ruiz-Lozano and Ricardo Aroca]
How Rhizobia Survive in the Absence of a Legume Host, a Stressful World Indeed [Ann Hirsch]
Life on a Leaf: Bacterial Epiphytes of a Salt-Excreting Desert Tree [Shimshon Belkin and Noga Qvit-Raz]
Physiological Responses to Stress in the Vibrionaceae [William Soto, C. Phoebe Lostroh and Michele K. Nishiguchi]
The Stressed Life of Microbes in Plants [Maria Grilli Caiola and Antonella Canini]
Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Interactions: Stress Protection, Plant Growth Promotion and Biocontrol by Stenotrophomonas [Gabriele Berg, Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Ben Lugtenberg and Martin Hagemann]
Adaptation and Survival of Plants in High Stress Habitats via Fungal Endophyte Conferred Stress Tolerance [Rusty J. Rodriguez, Claire Woodward, and Regina S. Redman]
Grass Endophyte-Mediated Plant Stress Tolerance: Alkaloids and their Functions [Monica S. Torres and James F. White]
Endocytosis in Plant – Fungal Interactions [Maya Bar and Adi Avni]
Die Hard: Lichens [Martin Grube]
Stress and Developmental Strategies in Lichens [Elfriede Stocker-Wörgötter]
Green Algae and Fungi in Lichens Symbionts - but Friends or Foes? [Russel L. Chapman and Melanie R. Chapman]
Green Biofilms on Tree Barks: More than Just Algae [Katharina Freystein and Werner Reisser]
PART 5: SYMBIOSES AND ASTROBIOLOGY
Space Flight Effects on Lichen Ultrastructure and Physiology: Following the Lichens 2005 Experiment On-Board the Biopan V Space Exposure Facility [Asunción de los Ríos, Carmen Ascaso, Jacek Wierzchos and Leopoldo G. Sancho]
Resistance of Symbiotic Eukaryotes Survival to Simulated Space Conditions and Asteroid Impact Cataclysms [Jean-Pierre P. de Vera and Sieglinde Ott]
PART 6: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Symbioses and Stress: Final comments [Martin Grube and Joseph Seckbach]
Organisms Index
Subject Index
Authors Index