LEADER 03461nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910826835203321 005 20220416002451.0 010 $a1-282-96447-X 010 $a9786612964473 010 $a1-4008-3328-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400833283 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066744 035 $a(EBL)646750 035 $a(OCoLC)701704235 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001174470 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11685688 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001174470 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11115801 035 $a(PQKB)10392049 035 $a(OCoLC)703155101 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36860 035 $a(DE-B1597)446733 035 $a(OCoLC)979835388 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400833283 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL646750 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442047 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL296447 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC646750 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066744 100 $a20080506d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe social amoebae $ethe biology of cellular slime molds /$fJohn Tyler Bonner 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (157 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-13939-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [129]-139) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1 Introduction --$t2 The Life Cycle --$t3 Evolution --$t4 Ecology --$t5 Behavior of Amoebae and Cell Masses --$t6 Morphogenesis --$t7 Differentiation --$t8 The Future --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aNoted biologist and author John Tyler Bonner has experimented with cellular slime molds for more than sixty years, and he has done more than anyone else to raise these peculiar collections of amoebae from a minor biological curiosity to a major model organism--one that is widely studied for clues to the development and evolution of all living things. Now, five decades after he published his first pioneering book on cellular slime molds, Bonner steps back from the proliferating and increasingly specialized knowledge about the organism to provide a broad, nontechnical picture of its whole biology, including its evolution, sociobiology, ecology, behavior, and development. The Social Amoebae draws the big lessons from decades of research, and shows how slime molds fit into and illuminate biology as a whole. Slime molds are very different from other organisms; they feed as individual amoebae before coming together to form a multicellular organism that has a remarkable ability to move and orient itself in its environment. Furthermore, these social amoebae display a sophisticated division of labor; within each organism, some cells form the stalk and others become the spores that will seed the next generation. In The Social Amoebae, Bonner examines all these parts together, giving a balanced, concise, and clear overview of slime mold biology, from molecules to cells to multicells, as he advances some unconventional and unexpected insights. 606 $aAcrasiomycetes 615 0$aAcrasiomycetes. 676 $a579.5/2 700 $aBonner$b John Tyler$032892 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826835203321 996 $aThe social amoebae$93946187 997 $aUNINA