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EVOLUTIONARY PROTISTOLOGY the Organism As Cell EVOLUTIONARY PROTISTOLOGY The Organism as Cell Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 1983 Edited by LYNN MARC ULIS Boston University MARIE-ODILE SOYER-COBILLARD Laboratoire Arago JOHN CORLISS University of Maryland Reprinted from Origins ofLife , Volume 13, Nos. 3-4 D. Reidel Publishing Company Dordrecht I Boston ISBN- I 3 978-94-009-6400-6 c-ISBN- I 3 978-94-009-6398-6 DOl 10 1007/978-94-009-6398-6 All Righ ts Reserved © 1984 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland Softcover reprint of the hardcover 15t edition 1984 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Participants vii Foreword ix M. LITTLE, R. F. LUDUENA, L. C. MOREJOHN, C. ASNES, and E. HOFFMAN I The Tubulins of Animals, Plants, Fungi and Protists - Implications for Metazoan Evolu­ tion 169 A. ADOUTTE, M. CLAISSE, and J. CANCE I Tubulin Evolution: An Electrophoretic and Immunological Analysis 177 U.-P. ROOS I From Proto-Mitosis to Mitosis - An Alternative Hypothesis on the Origin and Evolution of the Mitotic Spindle 183 C. GALLERON I The Fifth Base: A Natural Feature of Dinoflagellate DNA 195 M. HERZOG, S. VON BOLETZKY, and M.-O. SOYER I Ultrastructural and Biochemical Nuclear Aspects of Eukaryote Classification: Independent Evolution of the Dino- flagellates as a Sister Group of the Actual Eukaryotes? 205 E. B. SMALL I An Essay on the Evolution of Ciliophoran Oral Cytoarchitecture Bases on Descent·from Within a Karyorelictean Ancestry 217 S. E. LENK, E. B. SMALL, and J. GUNDERSON I Preliminary Observations of Feeding in the Psammobiotic Ciliate Tracheloraphis 229 D. L. LIPSCOMB I Methods of Systematic Analysis: The Relative Superiority of Phylogenetic Systematics 235 V. MACHELON, 1. GIfNERMONT, and Y. DATTEE I A Biometrical Analysis of Morpho- logical Variation Within a Section of Genus Eupiotes (Ciliata, Hypotrichida), with Special Reference to the E. vannus Complex of Sibling Species 249 P. A. KIVIC and P. L. WALNE I An Evaluation of a Possible Phylogenetic Relationship between the Euglenophyta and Kinetoplastida 269 R. K. ZAHN I A Green Alga with Minimal Eukaryotic Features: Nanochlorum Eucaryotum 289 G. BRUGEROLLE and J.-P. MIGNOT / The Cell Characters of Two Helioflagellates Related to the Centrohelidian Lineage: Dimorpha and Tetradimorpha 305 C. FEBVRE-CHEVALIER and J. FEBVRE / Axonemal Microtubule Pattern of Cienkowskya Mereschkovskyi and a Revision of Heliozoan Taxonomy 315 J. THEODORIDES I The Phylogeny of the Gregarinia (Sporozoa) 339 I. DESPORTES I The Paramyxea Levine 1979: An Original Example of Evolution Towards Multicellularity 343 l. Michel Herzog 12. John Dodge 23. David Patterson 34. Michelle Laval-Peuto 45. M. C. Tellez 57. Susan Lenk 2. Paul Prevot 13. Christine Metivier 24. Claude Grevet 35. Jean Genermont 46. Monique Cachon 58. Morris Alexander 3. Colette Galleron 14. Marie Albert 25. Peter Westbroek 36. Deniis Searcy 47. Thos Cavalier-Smith 59. Melvyn Little 4. F. J. R. Taylor 15. Guy Brugerolle 26. Drs Peter Roos 37. Guy Orrison 48. Richard Luduefia 60. Diana Lipscomb 5. Marie-Odile Soyer 16. Pilar Garcia 27. Colette Demar 38. Josette Rouviere-Yaniv 49. Faye Murrin 61. David Lloyd 6. Annie Boillot 17. Isabella Desportes 28. Veronique Machelon 39. Jean Cachon 50. Giinther Bahnweg 62. Lynn Margulis 7. Yvonne Bhaud 18. M.Dynner 29. Patricia Walne 40. 1. Bren tHea th 51. Michael Melkonian 63. Jerome Motta 8. Peter Rizzo 19. Martin Estrada 30. John Corliss 41. Betsy Dexter-Dyer 52. S. T. Moss 64. Dennis Goode 9. Peter Kivic 20. qlivind Moestrup 31. Alvin Poppenheimer 42. Robert Allen 53. John Heisler 65. Christian Bandele 10. David Sigee 21. I.-P. Mignot 32. Andre Lwoff 43. Gisele Bardele 54. Andre Adoutte 66. Vincent Demoulin 11. Anton Bopman 22. Marcella Lefotron 33. Alain Bilbaut 44. Mrs. Motta 55. Gil Rosano 67. Eugene Small 56. Lisa MaeKerracher 68. Jean Febvre LIST OF PARTICIPANTS I.S.E.P.1983 Adoutte Andre, Centre de genetique moleculaire, C.N.R.S., 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette (France) Albert Marie, Laboratoire Arago, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer (France) Allen Robert D., Department of Biological Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 03755 (U.S.A.) Bahnweg Gunther, Institut fiir Mikrobiologie der Universitiit Giittingen, Grisebachstrasse 8, 34 Giittingen (F.R.G.) Bardele C F., Institut fiir Biologie III, Lehrstuhl Zoologie, Auf der Morgenstelle 74, Tiibingen (F.R.G.) Bhaud Yvonne, Labomtoire Arago, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer (France) Bilbaut A., Laboratoire d'Histologie et Biologie tissulaire, Cniversite Claude Bernard - Lyon I, 43 Boulevard du II novembre, 69621 Villeurbanne (France) Billy (de) Fran90ise, Laboratoire Arago, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer (France) Boillot Annie, Laboratoire Zoologique, La Darse, 06300 Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) Boletzky Sigurd (von), Laboratoire Arago, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer (France) Borman Anton H., Biochemisch Laboratorium, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Wassenaarseweg 64 2333 AL Leiden (Holland) Brugerolle Guy, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Complexe scientifique des Cezeaux, B.P. 45, Les Cezeaux, 63170 Aubiere (France) Cachon Jean, Laboratoire de Protistologie marine, Station de Biologie marine, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) Cachon Monique, Laboratoire de Protistologie marine, Station de Biologie marine, 06230 Villefranche-sur- Mer (France) Cavalier-Smith T., University of London Kings College, 26 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL (U.K.) Corliss John 0., Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (U.S.A.) Demar Colette, Laboratoire de Zoologie, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris Cede x 05 (France) Demoulin V., Departement de Botanique, Universite de Liege, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liege (Belgium) Dcsportes Isabelle, Laboratoire d 'evolution des Ftres organises, 105 Boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris (France) Dodge J. D., Department of Botany, Royal Holloway College, Huntersdale Callow Hill, Virginia Water, Surrey GU 25 4LN (CX.) Febvre Colette, Laboratoire de Protistologie marine, Station de Biologie marine, 06230 Villefranche-sur­ Mer (France) Febvre Jean, Laboratoire de Protistologie marine, Station de Biologie marine, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) Fernandez-Leborans G., Laboratorio de Biologia general, Facultad de Biologia, Universitad Complutense, Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid 3 (Spain) Gadea Enrique, Departamento de Zoologia, Facultad de Biologia, Universitad de Barcelona, Gran Via 585, Barcelona 7 (Spain) Galbon Colette, 64 rue Dutot, 75015 Paris (France) Genermont Jean, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Universite Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay (France) Gil Rosario, CS.I.C, Institut Immunologia y Biologia Microbiana, Velazquez 144. Madrid 6 (Spain) Goode D., Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (U.S.A.) Gracia-Royo M. P., Departamento de Zoologia, Universitad de Barcelona, Gran via 585, Barcelona 7 (Spain) . Grain J., Groupe de Zoologie et Protistoiogie, Universite de Clermont, Complexe Scientifique des Cezeaux, B.P. 45, 63170 Aubiere (France) Greuet C, Laboratoire de Biologie animalc et Cytologie, Faculte des Sciences, 06034 Nice Cedex (France) Grosovsky Betsey, Biology Department, Boston University, 2 Cummington Street, Boston, MA02215 (U.S.A.) . Heath I. B., Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview, Ontario M3J IP3 (Canada) Origins of Life 13 (1984), vii. viii LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Heisler J. J., Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (U .S.A.) Herzog Michel, Laboratoire Arago, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer (France) Kivic P., Botany Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37916 (U.S.A.) Lefort-Tran Marcelle, CNRS, Cytophysiologie de la Photosynthese, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette (France) Lenk Susan E., Department of Zoology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (U .S.A.) Li Jing Yan, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Academia Sinica, Kunming, Yunnan Province (China) Lipscomb D. L., The George Washington University, Department of Biological Sciences, Washington, DC 20052 (U.S.A) Little Melvyn, German Cancer Research Center, Institute of Cell and Tumor Biology, 1m Neuenheimer Feld 280, Heidelberg (F.R.G.) Lloyd David, University College, Newport Road, CardiffCF2 ITA (U.K.) Luduefia R. F., Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX 78284 (U.S.A.) Lwoff Andre, 69 avenue de Suffren, 75007 Paris (France) Machelon V., Laboratoire de Zoologie, Universite Paris Sud, 91405 Orsay (France) MacKerracher Lisa, York University, Department of Biology, 4700 Keele St., Downsview, Ontario M3J IP3 (Canada) Margulis Lynn, Biology Department, Boston University, 2 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215 (U.S.A.) Melkonian Michael, Botanisches Institut, Schlossgarten 3, 4400 Munster (F.R.G.) Metivier Christine, Laboratoire Arago, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer (France) Mignot Jean-Pierre, Laboratoire de Zoologie, Complexe scientifique des Cezeaux, B.P. 45, 63170 Aubiere (France) Moestrup Ojvind, Kobenhavns Universitet, Institut fUr Sporeplanter, Ofarimagsgade 2 D, 1353 Kobenhavn (Denmark) Moss Stephen, Biological Sciences, Portsmouth Polytechnic, King Henry Building, King Henry Street, Portsmouth P012DY (U.K.) Motta J., Department of Botany, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (U .S.A.) Murrin Faye, York University, Faculty of Science, 4700 Keele Street, Downsview,
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