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  title info:
    title: Monograph of the Gonostomatidae and Kahliellidae (Ciliophora, Hypotricha)
  name:
    name part: Berger, Helmut.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 742 p. online resource.
  abstract: The present monograph is the fourth of six volumes which review the Hypotricha, a major group of the spirotrichs. The book is about the Gonostomatidae, the Kahliellidae, and some taxa of unknown position in the hypotrichs. Gonostomum was previously misclassified in the Oxytrichidae because its type species Gonostomum affine has basically an 18-cirri pattern, which is dominant in the oxytrichids. A new hypothesis, considering also molecular data, postulates that this 18-cirri pattern evolved in the last common ancestor of the hypotrichs and therefore it appears throughout the Hypotricha tree. The simple dorsal kinety pattern, composed of only three bipolar dorsal kineties, and gene sequence analyses strongly suggest that Gonostomum branches off rather early in the phylogenetic tree. Thus, the Gonostomatidae, previously synonymised with the oxytrichids, are reactivated to include the name-bearing type genus and other genera (e.g., Paragonostomum, Wallackia, Cladotricha) which have the characteristic gonostomatid oral apparatus. The Kahliellidae are a rather vague group mainly defined via the preservation of parts of the parental infraciliature. The kahliellids preliminary comprise, besides the name-bearing type genus Kahliella, genera such as Parakahliella and its African pendant Afrokahliella or the monotypic Engelmanniella. In total 68 species distributed in 21 genera and subgenera are revised. As in the previous volumes almost all morphological, morphogenetic, molecular, faunistic, and ecological data, scattered in almost 700 papers, are compiled so that the four volumes (Oxytrichidae, Urostyloidea, Amphisiellidae and Trachelostylidae, Gonostomatidae and Kahliellida) provide a detailed insight into the biology of almost 500 species of hypotrichs. The series is an up-to-date overview about this highly interesting taxon of spirotrichous ciliates mainly addressed to taxonomists, cell biologists, ecologists, molecular biologists, and practitioners.
  table of contents: A General Section -- B Systematic Section -- Gonostomatidae (33 species) -- Kahliellidae (15 species) -- Taxa of Unknown Position in the Non-dorsomarginalian Hypotricha (14 species) -- Supplement to Apourosomoida (5 species) -- References -- Systematic Index -- Table Index.
  note: by Helmut Berger.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Developmental biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal ecology
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
  subject:
    topic: Biodiversity
  subject:
    topic: Developmental Biology
  subject:
    topic: Animal Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  classification: QL351-352
  classification: 578.012
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  identifier: 9789400704558
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0455-8
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    record creation date: 110105
    record change date: 20151125192909.0
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