The Biology of Dinoflagellates

Abstract

General group characteristics: special features of interest: short history of dinoflagellate study Dinoflagellate morphology Dinoflagellate ultrastructure and complex organelles Biochemistry of the dinoflagellate nucleus Photosynthetic physiology of dinoflagellates Heterotrophic nutrition Bioluminescence and circadian rhythms Dinoflagellate toxins Dinoflagellate sterols Behaviour in dinoflagellates Ecology of dinoflagellates Dinoflagellates in non-parasitic symbioses Parasitic dinoflagellates Dinoflagellate reproduction Dinoflagellate cysts in ancient and modern sediments. Appendix: Taxonomy and classification