Protistology
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Protistology is a scientific discipline devoted to the study of protists, a highly diverse group of eukaryotic organisms. All eukaryotes apart from animals, plants and fungi are considered protists.[1] Its field of study therefore overlaps with the more traditional disciplines of phycology, mycology, and protozoology, just as protists embrace mostly unicellular organisms described as algae, some organisms regarded previously as primitive fungi, and protozoa ("animal" motile protists lacking chloroplasts).[1]
They are a paraphyletic group with very diverse morphologies and lifestyles. Their sizes range from unicellular picoeukaryotes only a few micrometres in diameter to multicellular marine algae several metres long.[1]
History[]
The term "protozoology" has become dated as understanding of the evolutionary relationships of the eukaryotes has improved, and is frequently replaced by the term "protistology". For example, the Society of Protozoologists, founded in 1947, was renamed International Society of Protistologists in 2005. However, the older term is retained in some cases (e.g., the Polish journal Acta Protozoologica).[2]
Journals and societies[]
Dedicated academic journals include:[3]
- Archiv für Protistenkunde, 1902-1998, Germany (renamed Protist, 1998-);[4]
- , 1922-1928, Russia;
- , 1954-1993, USA (renamed , 1993-);[5]
- , 1963-, Poland;[6]
- , 1968-1987, France (renamed , 1987-);[7]
- , 1968-2017, Japan (renamed , 2018-);[8]
- Protistology, 1999-, Russia.[9]
Other less specialized journals, important to protistology before the appearance of the more specialized:
- Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, 1666-, France;
- Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 1853-1966, UK (renamed Journal of Cell Science, 1966-);
- Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie, 1865-1923, Germany;
- Transactions of the Microscopical Society, 1841-1869, UK (renamed Journal of Microscopy, 1869-);
- Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 1880-1994, USA (renamed Invertebrate Biology, 1995-);
- Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 1909-, Brazil.
Some societies:
- , 1947-2005, USA (renamed , 2005-), with many affiliates;[10]
- , 1975, USA.[11]
- Protistology UK (previously British Society for Protist Biology)[12]
- International Society of Protistologists (previously the Society of Protozoologists)[13]
Notable protistologists (sorted by alphabetical order of surnames)[]
The field of protistology was idealized by Haeckel, but its widespread recognition is more recent. In fact, many of the researchers cited below considered themselves as protozoologists, phycologists, mycologists, microbiologists, microscopists, parasitologists, limnologists, biologists, naturalists, zoologists, botanists, etc., but made significant contributions to the field.
- Carl Agardh
- William Archer
- Anton de Bary
- Karl Bělař
- Harold C. Bold
- Alexander Braun
- Otto Bütschli
- Thomas Cavalier-Smith
- Carlos Chagas
- Édouard Chatton
- Tyge Ahrengot Christensen
- Lev Tsenkovsky (Cienkowski)
- Herbert Copeland
- Pierre Dangeard
- Yves Delage
- Karl Moriz Diesing
- Clifford Dobell
- Franz Theodor Doflein
- Valentin Dogiel
- Félix Dujardin
- C.G. Ehrenberg
- Fauré-Fremiet
- Felix Eugen Fritsch
- Wendy Gibson
- Édouard de Fromentel
- Pierre-Paul Grassé
- Battista Grassi
- Karl Gottlieb Grell
- Ernst Haeckel
- Max Hartmann
- Edgard Hérouard
- Richard Hertwig
- Bronislaw M. Honigberg
- Alfred Kahl
- Patrick John Keeling
- Georg Klebs
- C. A. Kofoid
- Friedrich Traugott Kützing
- Ray Lankester
- Ernst Lemmermann
- Rudolf Leuckart
- Gustav Lindau
- Alfred R. Loeblich Jr
- André Lwoff
- Lynn Margulis
- Émile Maupas
- Michael Melkonian
- Konstantin Mereschkowski
- Walter Migula
- Edward Alfred Minchin
- Øjvind Moestrup
- O.F. Müller
- Carl Nägeli
- Alcide d'Orbigny
- Adolf Pascher
- David J. Patterson
- Eugène Penard
- Maximilian Perty
- Ernst Pringsheim Jr.
- Andrew Pritchard
- S. von Prowazek
- Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst
- Eduard Reichenow
- Muriel Robertson
- Julius von Sachs
- William Saville-Kent
- Fritz Schaudinn
- Joseph Schröter
- Max Schultze
- F. E. Schulze
- Vladimir Shevyakov (Schewiakoff)
- C. von Siebold
- P.C. Silva
- Heinrich Leonhards Skuja
- Gilbert Morgan Smith
- Frederick Kroeber Sparrow
- Friedrich von Stein
- Helen Tappan
- C. M. Wenyon
- George Stephen West
- Robert Whittaker
- Heinrich Georg Winter
- Otto Zacharias
- Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf
References[]
- ^ a b c Geisen, Stefan; Mitchell, Edward A D; Adl, Sina; authors, and 10 further (2018). "Soil protists: a fertile frontier in soil biology research". FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 42: 293–323. doi:10.1093/femsre/fuy006. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ "Home". International Society of Protistologists. Retrieved 2021-06-28.
- ^ Wolf M., Hausmann K. (2001). "Protozoology from the perspective of science theory: history and concept of a biological discipline" (PDF). Linzer Biol. Beitr. 33: 461–488.
- ^ "Protist". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ "Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology". Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. doi:10.1111/(ISSN)1550-7408. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ "Acta Protozoologica (International Journal of Protozoology)". Jagiellonian University Press. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ "European Journal of Protistology". Elsevier. Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ "Journal of Protistology". J-STAGE. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
- ^ "Protistology, an international journal". Retrieved 12 January 2013.
- ^ "New President's Address". protozoa.uga.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
- ^ Taylor, F. J. R. 'M. (2003). "The collapse of the two-kingdom system, the rise of protistology and the founding of the International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP)". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (6): 1707–1714. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02587-0. PMID 14657097.
- ^ "Welcome to Protistology UK!". Protistology UK. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
- ^ "International Society of Protistologists". International Society of Protistologists. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
External links[]
Media related to Protistology at Wikimedia Commons- Portal to protistology by the International Society of Protistologists
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