Biocommunication of Ciliates
This is the first coherent description of all levels of communication of ciliates. Ciliates are highly sensitive organisms that actively compete for environmental resources. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular
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ocommunication of Ciliates
Biocommunication of Ciliates
Guenther Witzany Mariusz Nowacki •
Editors
Biocommunication of Ciliates
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Editors Guenther Witzany Telos-Philosophische Praxis Buermoos Austria
ISBN 978-3-319-32209-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32211-7
Mariusz Nowacki Institut für Zellbiologie Universität Bern Bern Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-32211-7
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Preface
Whenever living cells, whether prokaryotic or eukaryotic, coordinate their behavior, communication processes are necessary to reach coordinative goals. Each activity on all levels of biocommunication (intraorganismic, interorganismic, transorganismic, and generating response behavior to abiotic influences) is usually achieved by means of specialized signaling. If these signaling processes are disturbed, damaged, or incomplete, the activity remains incomplete or rudimentary or is deleted. Communication means interactions that are mediated by signals in contrast to purely physico-chemical interactions where no signals are present. Additionally these sign-mediated interactions need rules on how the signals may be combined to transport more complex informational content. Last but not least, communicative interactions mediated by signs depend essentially on living agents that are able to follow such rules of sign use. Additionally it must be mentioned that sign-mediated rule-governed interactions are a kind of social interaction, i.e., communication processes are social events, involving groups of interacting agents that share the rules on how to use signals, and this means that group identity is essential in living nature. The prerequisites of communication are: (1) its social character, (2) its dependence
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