Evolutionary Pathways and Enigmatic Algae

I. Models for the eukaryotic cellular origins and evolutions.- 1. Origin of Eukaryota from cyanobacterium: membrane evolution theory.- 2. Glaucocystophyta model for symbiogenous evolution of new eukaryotic species.- 3. Alternative pathway (cyanobacteria to eukaryota).- II. Green enigmatic algae.- 4. Nanochlorum eucaryotum — a green enigmatic alga: morphology, biochemistry and molecular biology.- 5. Enigmatic chlorophycean algae forming symbiotic associations with ciliates.- III. The paradoxical Cyanidiophyceae.- 6. The natural history of Cyanidium (Geitler 1933: past and present perspectives.- 7. A review on the taxonomic position of the algal genus Cyanidium Geitler 1933 and its ecological cohorts Galdieria Merola in Merola et al. 1981 and Cyanidioschyzon De Luca, Taddei and Varano 1978.- 8. Systematic position and phylogenetic status of Cyanidium Geitler 1933.- 9. New classification for the genus Cyanidium Geitler 1933.- 10. Cyanidium investigations in Japan.- 11. Italy’s contribution to the systematics of Cyanidium caldarium ’sensu lato’.- 12. The study of Cyanidiophyceae in Russia.- 13. Cyanidium-like algae from caves.- 14. The function of peroxisomes in the Cyanidiaceae.- 15. Nitrogen assimilation in a thermophilic acidophilic alga.- 16. Natural products of the Cyanidiophyceae.- 17. Ultrastructure of unicellular red algae.- 18. Ultrastructure of cytoplasmic organelles in Cyanidium caldarium.- 19. Cyanidium caldarium as a model cell for studying division of chloroplasts.- 20. Molecular organization and expression of the plastid genome of Galdieria sulphuraria (= Cyanidium caldarium) and other unicellular red algae.- 21. The molecular aspects of pigments and photosynthesis in Cyanidium caldarium.- 22. List of relevant literature references and index fordisciplinary fields.- Appendix. Methods for algal investigation.- General index.