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Joseph Seckbach
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Life Sciences
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Is There an Alternative Path in Eukaryogenesis?
The transition from prokaryotic to eukaryotic cells (‘Eukaryogenesis’) is still a biological mystery. The present paper revisits the question of the origin of the eukaryotic cell and suggests that the biochemi...
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Biological Aspects of the Origin of Life: Open Questions in Eukaryogenesis
The identification of the first organisms is currently not solved. However, it is agreed that the bacterial cells (Prokaryota or Monera) were the pioneering unicellular organisms. These cells were the progenit...
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New classification for the genus Cyanidium Geitler 1933
The taxonomic and systematic chapters (Ott and Seckbach in this volume) gave the following binomials (and where applicable their respective formae) that have been applied at various times throughout the years ...
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A review on the taxonomic position of the algal genus Cyanidium Geitler 1933 and its ecological cohorts Galdieria Merola in Merola et al. 1981 and Cyanidioschyzon De Luca, Taddei and Varano 1978
The alga presently known as Cyanidium caldarium (Tilden 1898a) Geitler 1933 has received a great deal of attention in the last 25 years both from the more classical phycologists who are concerned with phylogeneti...
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The natural history of Cyanidium (Geitler 1933): past and present perspectives
Cyanidium caldarium is an acid hot spring alga which resembles Chlorella in its external morphological appearance. During reproduction, this alga divides into four endospores (while other species...
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Systematic position and phylogenetic status of Cyanidium Geitler 1933
The alga known in the literature as Cyanidium caldarium is an acido-thermophilic organism distributed ubiquitously throughout the world. This alga resembles Chlorella, is unicellular, eukaryotic and exhibits a ra...
