Symbioses and Stress

by Seckbach, Joseph; Grube, Martin

• ISBN13: 9789048194483
• ISBN10: 9048194482
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-29
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

This book centers on the question of how organisms in tight symbiotic associations cope with various types of abiotic and biotic stress. In its original sense, symbioses cover all kinds of interactions among unrelated organisms, whereas in a narrower concept, the term is often referred to as mutualism. Evolutionary biology recognizes symbiosis as an integrative process, and most fundamental evolutionary innovations arose from cooperative symbioses. Mutualisms contribute to stress tolerance, ecosystem stability, and evolutionary radiation of cooperating organisms. Modern eukaryotic cells are the result of the endosymbiotic union of prokaryotic ancestors as well as diverse exosymbiotic associations. This cooperative aggregation appears more successful than its independent parts.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xxi
List of Authors and Their Addresses	p. xxvii
General Introduction
On the Origin of Symbiosis	p. 5
Symbioses and Stress	p. 21
Symbiotic Origin of Eukaryotes
Problems and Progress in Understanding the Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids	p. 41
The Origin of Eukarya as a Stress Response of Two-Membrane-Bounded Sexual Pre-karyote to an Aggressive alpha-Proteobacterial Periplasmic Infection	p. 65
Low CO2 Stress: Glaucocystophytes May Have Found a Unique Solution	p. 85
Aquatic Symbioses
Animal-Bacterial Endosymbioses of Gutless Tube-Dwelling Worms in Marine Sediments	p. 99
Multibiont Symbioses in the Coral Reef Ecosystem	p. 123
Cnidarian-Dinoflagellate Symbiosis-Mediated Adaptation to Environmental Pertubations	p. 149
Oxidative Stress-Mediated Development of Symbiosis in Green Paramecia	p. 179
Coral Symbiosis Under Stress	p. 199
Azolla as a Superorganism: Its Implication in the Symbiotic Studies	p. 227
Terrestrial Symbioses
Parasitism Is a Strong Force Shaping the Fungus-Growing Ant-Microbe Symbiosis	p. 247
Evolution and Consequences of Nutrition-Based Symbioses in Insects: More than Food Stress	p. 267
Three in a Boat: Host-Plant, Insect Herbivore and Fungal Entomopathogen	p. 291
Symbiotic Foraminifera and Stress	p. 329
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Under Stress Conditions: Benefits and Costs	p. 341
Modulation of Aquaporin Genes by the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Relation to Osmotic Stress Tolerance: Aquaporin in AM Plants Under Osmotic Stress	p. 359
How Rhizobia Survive in the Absence of a Legume Host, a Stressful World Indeed	p. 377
Life on a Leaf: Bacterial Epiphytes of a Salt-Excreting Desert Tree	p. 395
Physiological Responses to Stress in the Vibrionaceae	p. 409
The Stressed Life of Microbes in Plants	p. 429
Symbiotic Plant-Microbe Interactions: Stress Protection, Plant Growth Promotion and Biocontrol by Stenotrophomonas	p. 447
Adaptation and Survival of Plants in High Stress Habitats via Fungal Endophyte Conferred Stress Tolerance	p. 463
Grass Endophyte-Mediated Plant Stress Tolerance: Alkaloids and Their Functions	p. 479
Endocytosis in Plant-Fungal Interactions	p. 497
Die Hard: Lichens	p. 511
Stress and Developmental Strategies in Lichens	p. 527
Green Algae and Fungi in Lichens: Symbionts But Friends or Foes?	p. 549
Green Biofilms on Tree Barks: More than Just Algae	p. 559
Symbioses And Astrobiology
Space Flight Effects on Lichen Ultrastructure and Physiology: Following the LICHENS 2005 Experiment On-Board the BIOPAN V Space Exposure Facility	p. 579
Resistance of Symbiotic Eukaryotes Survival to Simulated Space Conditions and Asteroid Impact Cataclysms	p. 597
Summary and Conclusions
Symbioses and Stress: Final comments	p. 615
Organisms Index	p. 617
Subject Index	p. 623
Authors Index	p. 629
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