Joseph Seckbach & Martin Grube 
Symbioses and Stress [PDF ebook] 
Joint Ventures in Biology

GENERAL INTRODUCTION.- On the Origin of Symbiosis.- Symbioses and Stress.- SYMBIOTIC ORIGIN OF EUKARYOTES.- Problems and Progress in Understanding the Origins of Mitochondria and Plastids.- The Origin of Eukarya as a Stress Response of Two-Membrane-Bounded Sexual Pre-karyote to an Aggressive Alphaproteobacterial Periplasmic Infection.- Low CO2 Stress: Glaucocystophytes May Have Found a Unique Solution.- AQUATIC SYMBIOSES.- Animal–Bacterial Endosymbioses of Gutless Tube-Dwelling Worms in Marine Sediments.- Multibiont Symbioses in the Coral Reef Ecosystem.- Cnidarian–Dinoflagellate Symbiosis-Mediated Adaptation to Environmental Perturbations.- Oxidative Stress-Mediated Development of Symbiosis in Green Paramecia.- Coral Symbiosis Under Stress.- Azolla as a Superorganism. Its Implication in Symbiotic Studies.- TERRESTRIAL SYMBIOSES.- Parasitism is a Strong Force Shaping the Fungus-Growing Ant–Microbe Symbiosis.- Evolution and Consequences of Nutrition-Based Symbioses in Insects: More than Food Stress.- Three in a Boat: Host-Plant, Insect Herbivore, and Fungal Entomopathogen.- Symbiotic Foraminifera and Stress.- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Under Stress Conditions: Benefits and Costs.- Modulation of Aquaporin Genes by the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Relation to Osmotic Stress Tolerance.- How Rhizobia Survive in the Absence of a Legume Host, a Stressful World Indeed.- Life on a Leaf: Bacterial Epiphytes of a Salt-Excreting Desert Tree.- Physiological Responses to Stress in the Vibrionaceae.- The Stressed Life of Microbes in Plants.- Symbiotic Plant–Microbe Interactions: Stress Protection, Plant Growth Promotion, and Biocontrol by Stenotrophomonas.- Adaptation and Survival of Plants in High Stress Habitats via Fungal Endophyte Conferred Stress Tolerance.-Grass Endophyte-Mediated Plant Stress Tolerance: Alkaloids and Their Functions.- Endocytosis in Plant – Fungal Interactions.- Die Hard: Lichens.- Stress and Developmental Strategies in Lichens.- Green Algae and Fungi in Lichens:.- Green Biofilms on Tree Barks: More than Just Algae.- SYMBIOSES AND ASTROBIOLOGY.- Space Flight Effects on Lichen Ultrastructure and Physiology.- Resistance of Symbiotic Eukaryotes.- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS.- Symbioses and Stress: Final comments.