"The differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes are much more deep and fundamental than, for example, those between higher animals and higher plants. Numerous facts, especially those from cytology of simplest eukaryotic organisms, support the views of Kozo-Polyansky-Margulis. The eukaryotic cell, compared to a prokaryotic cell, is already rather some sort of 'supercell.' A specific 'assembly' of a complex eukaryotic system from already largely 'prefabricated parts' took place during the process of evolution."

Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky (1890-1957) graduated from Moscow University and in 1918 joined a Soviet university in his native Voronezh where he became a vice president as well as director of the local botanical garden.
Victor Fet is Professor of Biology at Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.
Lynn Margulis is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Peter H. Raven is President of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The Importance of B. M. Kozo-Polyansky's Work for Modern Science	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Note to the Reader	p. xxi
Kozo-Polyansky's Life	p. xxiii
Acknowledgments	p. xxxiii
Original Russian book title	p. xxxviii
Modern status of Kozo-Polyansky's view of the net of life: Symbiogenesis refined by Darwin-Wallace "natural selection"	p. xxxix
Preface	p. 1
Noncellular Organisms (Cytodes) and Bioblasts [Prokaryotes]	p. 3
Bacterial Bioblasts	p. 3
Cyanophyceae, or Blue-Green Algal Bioblasts	p. 6
Symbiosis among Cytodes	p. 9
Symbiosis of Cytodes with Unicellular Organisms [Protoctists]	p. 14
Symbiosis of Cytodes with Multicellular Organisms [Animals, Plants, Fungi]	p. 16
Cytodes [Prokaryotes] as Ancestors	p. 17
The Cell and Its Organelles	p. 19
Chlorophyll Organelles and Other Plastids	p. 19
Chlorophyll Organelles in Animals [and Protoctists]	p. 20
Chlorophyll Organelles in Plants [and Protoctists]	p. 25
Centrosomes	p. 31
Nuclei	p. 32
Mitochondria	p. 39
Ergastoplasm [Endoplasmic Reticulum]	p. 44
Golgi Apparatus	p. 44
Nerve Fibrils of Nemec	p. 46
Physodes [of Brown Algae]	p. 46
Myofibrils (Contractile Fibers)	p. 47
Blepharoplasts [Cytoplasmic Bodies That Bear an Undulipodium]	p. 47
Elaioplasts [Oil Bodies in Monocots]	p. 48
Aleurone [Proteinaceous Granules of Seeds]	p. 49
Cytoplasm [Liquid Homogeneous Substance That Contains Once-Autonomous Organisms]	p. 50
Multicellular Organisms	p. 54
First Series of Examples	p. 54
Lichens	p. 54
Plants [Successful Grafts]	p. 58
Animals [Chimeras and Graft Hybrids]	p. 62
Consortia of Sponges with Algae	p. 64
Second Series of Examples [Plants]	p. 66
Mucous Glands in Aquatic Ferns (Azolla) and Hornworts	p. 66
Stem Glands of Gunnera	p. 68
Leaf Glands of Plants	p. 70
Coralloid Organs of Cycads	p. 71
Mycorrhiza, Plant-Fungal Roots	p. 73
Orchids: Roots, Tubers, and Flowers	p. 74
Heathers and Their Roots	p. 77
Toxic Glands of Lolium temulentum	p. 78
Third Series of Examples [Animals]	p. 79
Algal Pubescence in Dragonfly Larvae	p. 80
Glandular Epithelium in Ant Midguts	p. 80
The Racemose Organ and Vaginal Glands of Beetles	p. 81
False Yolk (Pseudovitellus) in Aphids	p. 82
Cicadas: Their Abdominal Organs	p. 84
Lice: Their Hepatopancreas and Oviduct Ampullae	p. 84
Ticks: Their Digestive Glands	p. 85
Esophageal Glands of Leeches	p. 86
Lepidoptera: Accessory Glands of Their Reproductive Organs	p. 87
Bedbugs: Their Paired Glands	p. 89
Beetles' Light Organs	p. 91
Cyclostoma elegans, "Storage Kidney" (Mollusca)	p. 94
Tunicate: Its Bojanus Organ [Renal Sac]	p. 94
Luminescence in Tunicates: Pyrosoma	p. 95
Cephalopod Nidamental Glands and Light Organs	p. 97
Blood Platelets (Hematoblasts) in Mammals	p. 101
Other Tissues and Organs	p. 102
The Philosophy of Symbiogenesis	p. 108
The [Nucleated] Cell	p. 108
Organisms as Consortia	p. 109
Inherited Variation	p. 110
Heredity	p. 113
Natural Selection and the Struggle for Existence	p. 114
Symbiogenesis as Evidence for Evolution	p. 115
"Missing Links"	p. 116
Genealogical Relations: [Anastomoses of Family Tree Branches]	p. 117
Issues in Evolution	p. 117
A Program for Biology	p. 119
History of Symbiogenesis Theory	p. 121
References to Kozo-Polyansky's Text	p. 129
Kozo-Polyansky's Taxa	p. 145
Editors' Commentary	p. 151
Commentary References	p. 163
Modern Classification of Life (Most Inclusive "Higher" Taxa)	p. 175
Glossary	p. 181
Index	p. 191
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