Molecular research on algae over the last decades has provided significant insights into universal biological mechanisms. This knowledge has proved essential to the field of biotechnology where research on new applications in food culture, biofuel and pharmaceuticals is underway. This new book on algal cell biology provides an overview of cutting-edge research with a focus on cytoskeleton structure/function and cytokinesis of algae.

1. David Garbary
Programmed cell death in multicellular algae
Authors: David J. Garbary, Moira E. Galway, Christina E. Lord and Arunika Gunawardena Galway

2. John Archibald
Gene transfer and algal cell evolution
Authors: John Archibald and Shinichiro Maruyama

3. Véronique Martin-Jézéquel
Phaeodactylum tricornutum polymorphism: An overview
Authors: Véronique Martin-Jézéquel and Benoit Tesson

4. Leonel Pereira
Cytological and cytochemical aspects in selected carrageenophytes (Gigartinales, Rhodophyta)
Author Leonel Pereira

5. Burkhard Becker
Evolution of vacuolar targeting in algae
Authors: Burkhard Becker and Kerstin Hoef-Emden

6. Burkhard Becker
Contractile vacuole function in green algae
Authors: Karin Buchmann and Burkhard Becker

7. Christos Katsaros
Cytokinesis of brown algae
Authors: Christos Katsaros, Taizo Motomura, Chikako Nagasato and Makoto Terauchi

8. Karl Hasenstein
Cytoskeletal control of sperm release in Chara contraria
Authors: Qiaojun Jin and Karl H. Hasenstein

9. Kirsten Heimann
Dinoflagellate bioluminescence - a key concept for studying organelle movement
Authors: Kirsten Heimann, Paul L. Klerks, Karl H. Hasenstein

10. Kirsten Heimann
Algal cell biology - an important tool to understand metal and herbicide toxicity
Author: Kirsten Heimann