Table of Contents:
  • Historical perspectives
  • The collared flagellate : functional morphology and ultrastructure
  • Craspedida : choanoflagellates with exclusively organic coverings
  • Loricate choanoflagellates : Acanthoecida
  • Loricate choanoflagellates : requirement for silicon and its deposition in costal strips
  • Loricate choanoflagellates : Acanthoecidae--nudiform species
  • Loricate choanoflagellates : Stephanoecidae--tectiform species
  • Loricate choanoflagellates : evolutionary relationship between the nudiform and tectiform conditions
  • Choanoflagellate ecology
  • Choanoflagellate phylogeny : evolution of metazoan multicellularity.