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Title Genomics and evolution of microbial eukaryotes / edited by Laura A. Katz, Debashish Bhattacharya
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 243 pages)
Series Oxford biology
Oxford biology.
Contents Introduction / Laura A. Katz, Debashish Bhattacharya -- Current perspectives on high-level groupings of protests / Alastair G.B. Simpson, David J. Patterson -- Comparative genomics of Plasmodium species / Jane M. Carlton -- The genomes of dinoflagellates / Jermiah D. Hackett, Debashish Bhattacharya -- Cililate genome evolution / Casey McGrath, Rebecca Zulfall, Laura A. Katz -- Molecular evolution of forminifera / Samuel S. Bowser, Andrea Habura, Jan Pawlowski -- Photosynthetic organelles and endosymbiosis / M.S. Sommer [and others] -- Genome evolution of anaerobic protests: metabolic adaptation via gene acquisition / Jan O. Anderson -- Horizontal and intracellular gene transfer in the Apicomplexa: the scope and functional consequences / Jinling Huang, Jessica C. Kissinger -- The nuts and bolts of sequencing protest genomes / Daniella C. Bartholomeu, Neil Hall, Jane Carlton -- Comparative genomics of the typansomatids / Kenneth D. Stuart, Peter J. Myler -- The genome of Entamoeba histolytica / C. Graham Clark -- Genome reduction in microsporidia / Patrick J. Keeling -- Nucleomorphs: remnant nuclear genomes / Oliver Kawach [and others] -- Genomic insights into diatom evolution and metabolism / Virginia Armbrust, Tatiana A. Ryearson, Bethany D. Jenkins -- The Dictyostelium genome -- a blueprint for a multicellular protest / Pauline Schnap
Summary This book represents a unique combination of recently-emerged information on eukaryotic microbes, evolution and genomics. Eukaryotes, cells with nuclei, evolved as microbes and have existed on Earth for approximately 2 billion years. Although currently relatively understudied, eukaryotic microorganisms are of critical importance to ecosystems (through their involvement in global biogeochemical cycles), human health (they include some of the deadliest pathogens), and our desire to. understand global biodiversity. Recent advances, particularly in DNA sequencing technologies, are making eukaryoti
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Protista.
Microbial genomics.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology.
Microbial genomics
Protista
Form Electronic book
Author Katz, Laura Aline.
Bhattacharya, Debashish, 1959-
ISBN 9780191513855
0191513857
9786610757602
6610757607
1280757604
9781280757600
1429470445
9781429470445