Flagellates
Subtitle: Unity, Diversity and Evolution (Systematics Association Special Volume)
Contributors: Barry S. C. Leadbeater (Editor); John C. Green (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: June 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780748409143
Subjects: Marine biology; Phycology, algae & lichens; Science; Microbial Morphology; Science/Mathematics; General; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Evolution; Flagellata; Zooflagellates
First sentence: Although references to flagellates en masse are apparently recorded in biblical and other early texts, the earliest authenticated observations of individual flagellates using a microscope are attributed to Antony van Leeuwenhoek during the second half of the seventeenth century.