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1 Introduction
1.1 What is a protist species?
1.2 How much lateral gene transfer in protist evolution?
1.3 Sex. Multiple origins or multiple losses?
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2 A very brief history
2.1 Diversity, classification, and nomenclature
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3 Protist systematics and classification
3.1 Assembling a classification from a phylogeny
References
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Section I
4 Archaeplastida
4.1 Diaphoretickes
4.2 Archaeplastida
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5 Cryptista
Further reading
6 Haptista
6.1 Haptophyta
6.2 Centroplasthelida
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7 Stramenopiles
7.1 Opalozoa
7.2 Sagenista
7.3 Gyrista
7.4 Chrysista
7.5 Diatomista
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8 Alveolata
8.1 Protoalveolates
8.2 Dinoflagellata
8.3 Apicomplexa
8.4 Ciliophora
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9 Rhizaria
9.1 Gymnosphaeridae
9.2 Cercozoa
9.3 Endomyxa
9.4 Radiolaria
9.5 Foraminifera
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10 Obazoa, CRuMs, Hemimastigophora, and miscellaneous eukaryotes
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11 Amoebozoa
11.1 Tubulinea
11.2 Evosea
11.3 Discosea
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12 Discoba
12.1 Discoba
12.2 Heterolobosea
12.3 Euglenozoa
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13 Metamonada
13.1 Fornicata
13.2 Parabasalia
13.3 Preaxostyla
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14 Opisthokonta
14.1 Holomycota
14.2 Zoopagomycota
14.3 Mucoromycete
14.4 Dikarya
14.5 Holozoa
References
Further reading Holomycota
Further reading Holozoa
Section II
15 Origin of eukaryotes
15.1 Atmosphere composition and temperature
15.2 Earliest fossil eukaryotes
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16 Origin of protists
16.1 Serial endosymbiosis
16.2 A common cytoplasm for diverse genomes
16.3 Sex
16.4 Introns and the nucleus
16.5 Endomembranes
16.6 Anaerobic to aerobic respiration
16.7 Vesicle transport and cytoskeleton
16.8 Tubulin
16.9 Nuclear pores and cilium
16.10 Microtubular organizing center
16.11 Elements of the cytoskeleton
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17 Cell cycle regulation
17.1 Growth and division of organelles and endosymbionts
17.2 Morphogenesis and cytoskeleton
17.3 Cell cycle duration and growth phase
17.4 Cell size regulation
Glossary
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18 Cell shape
18.1 Kinetosome polarity and asymmetry
18.2 Kinetid orientation, rotation, and enantiomers
18.3 Singlets and doublets
18.4 Pattern memory
18.5 Mirror-imaged doublets
18.6 The anterioreposterior axis
18.7 Molecular basis for anterioreposterior axis determination
18.8 Mutants of the global cell patterning
18.9 Patterns in the evolution of protist cell morphology
18.10 Concluding remarks
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19 Photosynthesis and primary plastid endosymbiosis
19.1 Primary plastid in Archaeplastida
19.2 Paulinella
19.3 Adjusting to toxicity of oxygenic photosynthesis
19.4 Light-harvesting complex
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20 Secondary and tertiary plastid serial endosymbiosis
20.1 Ochrophyta (Stramenopiles)
20.2 Euglenida
20.3 From endosymbiont to organelle
20.4 Cryptomonad and chlorarachnion nucleomorphs
20.5 Dinoflagellates with nucleomorphs
20.6 Transitional plastid stages
20.7 “You are what you eat”
20.8 Envoi
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21 Organellar loss and gain of functions
21.1 Gaining and losing
21.2 Extrusomes
21.3 Loss of photosynthesis and plastid loss of function
21.4 Mitochondrion loss of function in anaerobic environments
21.5 Endosymbiosis and metabolic gains
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22 Touching, feeling, sensing
22.1 Porifera species discrimination
22.2 Foundations of behavior in Paramecium
22.3 Chemotaxis
22.4 Excystment and spore germination
22.5 Host specificity and membrane recognition
22.6 Predatoreprey interactions
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23 Sex
23.1 The sexual cycle
23.2 From isogamy to anisogamy
23.3 The many forms of meiosis
23.4 Mating types and sexual complementarity
23.5 Remarks on sex in protists
23.6 Sex
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24 Evolution of the genetic code
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25 Glossary
Legend to symbols in figures
Abbreviations
26 Protistology societies and journals
26.1 Societies
26.2 Journals
Further reading
27 Appendix. Summary of the PhyloCode
27.1 Codes of nomenclature
27.2 Summary of the PhyloCode
27.3 Glossary
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