Biodiversity of Ciliates and their Symbionts

• Other Authors: Schrallhammer, Martina (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Law; Drugs trade / drug trafficking; biogeography; ciliates; Paramecium quindecaurelia; cytochrome C oxidase subunit I gene; sibling species; species concept in protists; bacterial symbionts; symbiosis; intranuclear bacteria; Holospora; Gortzia; Paramecium; Micractinium tetrahymenae; Tetrahymena; Utricularia; facultative endosymbiosis; ciliate-algae symbiosis; Chlorella variabilis; Micractinium conductrix; diagnostic PCR; Holospora-like bacteria; host-parasite interactions; 16S rRNA gene; full-cycle rRNA approach; TEM; fluorescence in situ hybridization; algal-ciliate symbiosis; mycosporine-like amino acids; Pelagodileptus trachelioides; planktonic freshwater ciliates; Stokesia vernalis; Vorticella chlorellata; Chlorella; endosymbiosis; intracellular algae; Micractinium; photobiont; infection; syngen; n/a
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In the past three decades, a stream of criminological inquiry has emerged which explores, measures, and theorizes crimes and harms to the environment at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels. This "green criminology", as it has come to be known, has widened the criminological gaze to consider crimes and harms committed against air, land (from forests to wetlands), nonhuman animals, and water in local, regional, national, and international areas or arenas. Accordingly, green criminology has endeavored to understand the causes and consequences of air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, corporate environmental crime (e.g., illegal waste disposal), food production and distribution, resource extraction and exploitation, and wildlife trade and trafficking, while also exploring potential responses to these issues. This book seeks to introduce the green criminological perspective to a broader social science audience. Recognizing that green criminology is not the first social science to explore the phenomena and harms at the intersections of humanity and ecology, this book offers an introduction to some of the unique insights developed over nearly 30 years of green criminological thought and scholarship to students, professors, researchers, and practitioners working in the fields of anthropology, economics, environmental humanities, environmental sociology, geography, history, and political ecology. This book contains contributions from researchers in green criminology from around the world, including early- and mid-career scholars, as well as more established voices in the field-all of whom are dedicated to exposing, understanding, and ultimately hoping to thwart further environmental degradation and despoliation.