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1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Intro; Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Introduction; Evolution and Biodiversity; 1: From Richard Owen to Charles Darwin: Understanding the Origin of Life's Diversity; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Richard Owen, the archetype and the diversity of vertebrates; 1.3 Conclusion; 2: Life Engineering in an Evolutionary World; Abstract; 2.1 Why "Engineers"?; 2.2 The animal-machine legacy; 2.3 Genetic engineering: rational design or tinkering?; 2.4 Synthetic biology as the paradigm of bioengineering; 2.5 Transforming a transformation?; 2.6 Our cousins, the engineers |
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2.7 Engineering and evolutionary dynamics; 3: The View of Systematics on Biodiversity; Abstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Species: all different; 3.3 How about studying the other 90%?; 3.4 Biodiversity changes; 3.5 Challenging decades; 4: Which Model(s) Explain Biodiversity?; Abstract; 4.1 Birth-death processes; 4.2 Coalescent trees; 4.3 Birth-death and/or coalescent model?; 4.4 Acknowledgements; 5: Analysis of Microbial Diversity: Regarding the (Paradoxical) Difficulty of Seeing Big in Metagenomics; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Comparing metagenomic data sets is difficult |
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5.3 Path dependency and knowledge production; 5.4 Standardizing metagenomics; 5.5 Unlocking metagenomics; 5.6 Conclusion; 5.7 Acknowledgements; 5.8 Figure legends; 6: Genetic Code Degeneracy and Amino Acid Frequency in Proteomes; Abstract; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Frequency-mass correlation of encoded amino acids; 6.3 Amino-acid volume correlation in the genetic code; 6.4 Origin of genetic code degeneracy; 6.5 Origin of the frequency-mass correlation; 6.6 Summary and discussion; 6.7 Conclusion; 6.8 Acknowledgments; 7: Telomeres and Telomerases: Structural Diversity for the Same Role; Abstract |
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7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Nature of chromosome extremities; 7.3 Telomeres in eukaryotes; 7.4 Maintenance of telomeres by telomerase in eukaryotes; 8: Globalization and Infectious Diseases; Abstract; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Origins of tuberculosis; 8.3 Emergence of MDR-Beijing lineage; 8.4 Staphylococcus aureus and globalization; 8.5 Intensive farming and its distorting practices; 8.6 Success of an American clone; 8.7 Typhoid fever; 8.8 Indian diaspora and emergence of a new pathogen; 8.9 Prospects; 9: Why are Morpho Blue?; Abstract; 9.1 Introduction |
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9.2 Structural explanation: the iridescent blue in Morpho is a physical color; 9.3 Historical explanation: evolutionary origin of blue color in Morpho; 9.4 Functional explanation: the role of selection in the evolution of Morpho color; 9.5 Conclusions and open questions; 9.6 Acknowledgments; 10: Biodiversity in Natural History Collections: a Source of Data for the Study of Evolution; Abstract; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Description of biodiversity; 10.3 Ecological and evolutionary processes on a population level; 10.4 Ecological and evolutionary processes on a phylogenetic scale; 10.5 Conclusion |
| Summary |
Biodiversity and Evolution includes chapters devoted to the evolution and biodiversity of organisms at the molecular level, based on the study of natural collections from the Museum of Natural History. The book starts with an epistemological and historical introduction and ends with a critical overview of the Anthropocene epoch |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 26, 2018) |
| Subject |
Molecular evolution.
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Biodiversity.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Evolutionary genetics.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Evolution.
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Biodiversity
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Evolution (Biology)
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Evolutionary genetics
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Molecular evolution
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Grandcolas, Philippe, editor.
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Maurel, Marie-Christine, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780081025673 |
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008102567X |
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