The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification and by John O. Corliss

By John O. Corliss

The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, category and advisor to the Literature, moment version provides a untimely significant overhauling of the systematics of the Ciliophora sensu lato, that is thought of a separate phylum.
This publication incorporates a built reason and outlined standards that function a foundation for the reclassification of the ciliates. Discussions of debatable taxa are supplied, together with arbitrary yet severe answer in their position in, or rejection from, the hot total procedure. the guidelines about the evolution of ciliates, in addition to “phylogenetic timber” also are coated during this textual content.
This textual content categorizes the ciliates into 3 classes—Kinetofragminophora, Oligohymenophora, and Polyhymenophora.
This ebook is an effective resource for biologists and scholars attracted to ciliates.

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