Fungal Morphogenesis.

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Author(s): Moore, David
Series: Developmental and cell biology series 35.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2002

Language: English
Pages: 469
City: Cambridge
Tags: Биологические дисциплины;Микология;

Preface
1. Fungi: a place in time and space
1.1. Fungal lifestyle
1.2. The essential nature of fungi
1. 3. Evolutionary origins
1.4. Evidence from fossils
1.5. Origin of development
1.6. Evolution within Kingdom Fungi
1.7. Horizontal transfer of genetic information
1.8. Comparing and combining
2. Hyphal growth
2.1. Fungal cells
2.2. Hyphal tip extension
2.3. Septation
2.4. Branching
2.5. Growth kinetics
2.6. Dynamic boundaries
3. Metabolism and biochemistry of hyphal systems
3.1. Nutrients in nature
3.2. Extracellular polymer-degrading enzymes
3.3. Production, location, regulation and use of degradative enzymes
3.4. The menu of basic nutrients
3.5. The wall and membrane as barriers
3.6. The flow of solutes
3.7. Transport strategy
3.8. Water relations
3.9. Intermediary metabolism
3.10. Carbon metabolism
3.11. Fat catabolism
3.12. Nitrogen metabolism
3.13. Secondary metabolism
4. Physiological factors favoring morphogenesis
4.1. Nutrition
4.2. Adaptations of metabolism
4.3. Environmental variables
5. The genetic component of hyphal differentiation
5.1. Nuclear divisions
5.2. Sexuality in fungi
5.3. Shape and form in yeasts and hyphae
5.4. Sexual reproductive structures
5.5. Overview
6. Development of form
6.1. Initiation of structures
6.2. Cell differentiation
6.3. Tissue domains
6.4. Strategies of basidiomycete fruiting
6.5. Commitment, regeneration and senescence
6.6. Degeneration, senescence and death
7. The keys to form and structure
7.1. The nature of morphogenetic control
7.2. Fungal morphogenesis
References
Index.