Anoxia

Introduction.- Stepping into the book of Eukaryotes and Anoxia.- List of Authors and their Addresses.- List of External Reviewers and Referees.- Acknowledgment to authors, reviewers and any special people who assisted.-
PART I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION.- Anaerobic eukaryotes.- Biogeochemical reactions in marine sediments underlying anoxic water bodies.- Diversity of anaerobic prokaryotes and eukaryotes - breaking long-established dogmas.- PART II: FUNCTIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY.- The biochemical adaptations of mitochondrion-related organelles of parasitic and free-living microbial eukaryotes to low oxygen environments.- Hydrogenosomes and mitosomes: mitochondrial adaptations to life in anaerobic environments.- Adapting to hypoxia: lessons from vascular endothelial growth factor.- PART III: MANAGING ANOXIA.- Magnetotactic protists at the oxic-anoxic transition zones of coastal aquatic environments.- A novel ciliate (Ciliophora: Hypotrichida) isolated from bathyal anoxic sediments.- The wood-eating termite hindgut: diverse cellular symbioses in a microoxic to anoxic environment.- Ecological and experimental exposure of insects to anoxia reveals suprising tolerance.- The unusual response of encysted embryos of the animal extremophile, Artemia franciscana, to prolonged anoxia.- Survival of tardigrades in extreme environments - a model animal for astrobiology.- Long-term anoxia-tolerance in flowering plants.- PART IV: FORAMINIFERA.- Benthic Foraminifera: inhabitants of low-oxygen environments.- Ecological and biological response of benthic Foraminifera under oxygen-depleted conditions: evidence from laboratory approaches.- The response of benthic Foraminifera to low-oxygen conditions of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone.- Benthic foraminiferal communities and microhabitat selection on the continental shelf off central Peru.- PART V: ZONES AND REGIONS.- Living assemblages from the "Dead Zone" and naturally occurring hypoxic zones.- Thereturn of shallow shelf seas as