Evolutionary Protistology : The Organism As Cell Proceedings of the 5th Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 1983

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTIONARY PROTISTOLOGY (ISEP) 5th International Meeting 1983 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, June 4-6, 1 For the first time since its inception, at Boston University in June 1975, the Society for Evolutionary Protistology met in Europe. Under the direction of Marie-Odile Soyer- Gobillard and hosting some 70 people representing a dozen nations (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, W. Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, U. S. A. ) the meeting was held at Banyuls-sur-Mer in Catalunya. The 1983 ISEP met at the famed Laboratoire Arago on the Mediterranean Sea, most partici- pants were housed in the Laboratory's newly refurbished Grand Hotel. The previous meetings had emphasized single themes, e. g., (First) Boston, 1975 Evolution of Mitosis in Eukaryotic (Second) Downsview Ontario, 1977 Criteria for Phylogeny in Protists. In spite of the fact that the third meeting, planned for Leeds, England in June of 1979, was never held some of the papers scheduled to be presented there were published in BioSystems, Volume 12, Numbers 1 and 2. The fourth meeting at Port Deposit, Maryland, 1981 called Conference on Cellular Evolution focused on the Evolution of Micro tubules, Mitosis, Microfilaments and other Fibrillar Systems. The proceedings of this meeting were published in BioSystems, Volume 14, Numbers 3 and 4. Front Matter....Pages i-xii The Tubulins of Animals, Plants, Fungi and Protists Implications for Metazoan Evolution....Pages 169-176 Tubulin Evolution: An Electrophoretic and Immunological Analysis....Pages 177-182 From Proto-Mitosis to Mitosis - An Alternative Hypothesis on the Origin and Evolution of the Mitotic Spindle....Pages 183-193 The Fifth Base: A Natural Feature of Dinoflagellate DNA....Pages 195-203 Ultrastructural and Biochemical Nuclear Aspects of Eukaryote Classification: Independent Evolution of the Dinoflagellates as a Sister Group of the Actual Eukaryotes?....Pages 205-215 An Essay on the Evolution of Ciliophoran Oral Cytoarchitecture Based on Descent from Within a Karyorelictean Ancestry....Pages 217-228 Preliminary Observations of Feeding in the Psammobiotic Ciliate Tracheloraphis ....Pages 229-234 Methods of Systematic Analysis: The Relative Superiority of Phylogenetic Systematics....Pages 235-248 A Biometrical Analysis of Morphological Variation within a Section of Genus Euplotes (Ciliata, Hypotrichida), with Special Reference to the E. Vannus Complex of Sibling Species....Pages 249-267 An Evaluation of a Possible Phylogenetic Relationship Between the Euglenophyta and Kinetoplastida....Pages 269-288 A Green Alga with Minimal Eukaryotic Features: Nanochlorum Eucaryotum ....Pages 289-303 The Cell Characters of Two Helioflagellates Related to the Centrohelidian Lineage: Dimorpha and Tetradimorpha ....Pages 305-314 Axonemal Microtubule Pattern of Cienkowskya Mereschkovskyi and a Revision of Heliozoan Taxonomy....Pages 315-338 The Phylogeny of the Gregarinia (Sporozoa)....Pages 339-342 The Paramyxea Levine 1979: An Original Example of Evolution Towards Multicellularity....Pages 343-352 Back Matter....Pages 353-355