Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 The question of protozoan immortality
- 2 Sex and reproduction in ciliates and others
- 3 Isolation cultures
- 4 The fate of isolate cultures
- 5 The culture environment
- 6 Does sex rejuvenate?
- 7 Germinal senescence in multicellular organisms
- 8 The Ratchet
- 9 Soma and germ
- 10 Mortality and immortality in the germ line
- 11 The function of sex
- References
- Index of first authors
- Index of genera
- Index of subjects
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface
- 1 The question of protozoan immortality
- 2 Sex and reproduction in ciliates and others
- 3 Isolation cultures
- 4 The fate of isolate cultures
- 5 The culture environment
- 6 Does sex rejuvenate?
- 7 Germinal senescence in multicellular organisms
- 8 The Ratchet
- 9 Soma and germ
- 10 Mortality and immortality in the germ line
- 11 The function of sex
- References
- Index of first authors
- Index of genera
- Index of subjects
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- Sex and Death in ProtozoaThe History of Obsession, pp. i - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989