Symbiogenesis : a new principle of evolution / Boris Mikhaylovich Kozo-Polyansky ; translated from Russian, Victor Fet ; Victor Fet and Lynn Margulis, editors
The importance of B.M. Kozo-Polyansky's work for modern science / Liya N. Khakhina -- Introduction / Peter H. Raven -- Note to the reader / Lynn Margulis -- Kozo-Polyansky's life / Victor Fet -- Original Russian book title page -- Modern status of Kozo-Polyansky's view of the net of life : symbiogenesis refined by Darwin-Wallace "natural selection" -- Preface -- I. Noncellular organisms (cytodes) and bioblasts (prokaryotes). -- Bacteria bioblasts -- Cyanophyceae, or blue-green algal bioblasts -- Symbiosis among cytodes -- Symbiosis of cytodes with unicellular organisms (protoctists) -- Symbiosis of cytodes with multicellular organisms (animals, plants, fungi) -- Cytodes (prokaryotes) as ancestors -- II. The cell and its organelles. -- Chlorophyll organelles and other plastids -- a. Chlorophyll organelles in animals (and protoctists) ; b. Chlorophyll organelles in plants (and protocists) -- Centosomes -- Nuclei -- Mitochondria -- Ergastoplasm (endoplasmic reticulum) -- Golgi apparatus -- Nerve fibrils of Nemec -- Physodes (of brown algae) -- Myofibrils (contractile fibers) -- Blepharoplasts (cytoplasmic bodies that bear an undulipodium) -- Elaioplasts (oil bodies in monocots) -- Aleurone (proteinaceous granules of seeds) -- Cytoplasm (liquid homogeneous substance that contains once-autonomous organisms)
III. Multicellular organisms. -- First series of examples: Lichens -- Plants (successful grafts) -- Animals (chimeras and graft hybrids) -- Consortia of sponges with algae -- B. Second series of examples (plants): -- Mucous glands in aquatic ferns (azolla) and hornworts -- Stem glands of gunnera -- Leaf glands of plants -- Coralloid orgabns of cycads -- Mycorrhiza, plant-fungal roots -- Orchids: roots, tubers, and flowers -- Heathers and their roots -- Toxic glands of lolium temulentum -- C. Third seris of examples (animals): Algal pubescence in dragonfly larvae -- Glandular epithelium in ant midguts -- The racemose organ and vaginal glands of beetles -- False yolk (pseuidovitellus) in aphids -- Cicadas: their abdominal organs -- Lice: their hepatopancreas and oviduct ampullae -- Ticks: their digestive glands -- Esophageal glands of leeches -- Lepidoptera: accessory glands of their reproductive organs -- Bedbugs: their paired glands -- Beetles' lights organs -- Cyclostoma elegans, "storage kidney" (mollusca) -- Tunicate: its bojanus organ (renal sac) -- Luminescence in tunicates: pyrosoma -- Cephalopod nidamental glands in light organs -- Blood platelets (hematoblasts) in mammals -- Other tissues and organs -- IV. The philosophy of symbiogenesis. -- The [nucleated] cell -- Organisms as consortia -- Inherited variation -- Heredity -- Natural selection and the struggle for existence -- Symbiogenesis as evidence for evolution -- "Missing links" -- Genealogical relations: [anastomoses of family tree brances] -- Issues in evolution -- A program for biology -- V. History of symbiogenesis theory. -- References to Kozo-Polyansky's text -- Kozo-Polyansky's taxa -- Editor's commentary -- Commentary references -- Modern classification of life (most inclusive "higher" taxa) -- Glossary
Summary:
"The differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes are much more deep and fundamental than, for example, those between higher animals and higher plants. Numerous facts, especially those from cytology of simplest eukaryotic organisms, support the views of Kozo-Polyansky-Margulis. The eukaryotic cell, compared to a prokaryotic cell, is already rather some sort of 'supercell.' A specific 'assembly' of a complex eukaryotic system from already largely 'prefabricated parts' took place during the process of evolution."--Armen Takhtajan, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sceneces"--"How could this book not have been a part of evolutionary biology since its publication in 1924? ... What a difference it would have in the 'evolutionary synthesis' if this book were easily in the hands of biologists in German or English translation!"--William Provine, Cornell University" "More than eighty years ago, before we knew much about the structure of cells, Russian botanist Boris Kozo-Polyansky brilliantly outlined the concept of symbiogenesis, the symbiotic origin of cells with nuclei. It was a half-century later, only when experimental approaches that Kozo-Polyansky lacked were applied to his hypotheses, that scientists began to accept his view that symbiogenesis could be united with Darwin's concept of natural selection to explain the evolution of life. After decades of neglect, ridicule, and intellectual abuse, Kozo-Polyansky's ideas are now endorsed by virtually all biologists." "Kozo-Polyansky's seminal work is presented here for the first time in an outstanding annotated translation, updated with commentaries, references. and modern micrographs of symbiotic phenomena.
"Jacket Photographs: (front) The "solar powered" animal (Elysio chloraticu, an opisthobrach sea slug) with functional endosymbiotic plastids sequestered from the yellow-green alga vatteheria litrca (Phylum Xanthophyta. Stramenopile). Photosynthetic plastids sustain the mollusk for up to 9 or 10 months, Limited horizontal nuclear gene transfer from the alga to the sea slug has been also demonstrated (Rumpho et al. 2008). (Courtesy Mary Tyler and Mary Rumpho, University of Maine) (front and spine) Androsace kozo-poljanskii (primulaceae). the only plant named after Kozo-Polyansky. (Photography: Vyacheslav Ponomatev) (back) Usmanka River valley near Voronezh, close to the field station where Kozo-Polyansky worked for decades (photograph: Viktor Golub, Voronezh State University)."--Jacket.
