Description |
xxi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents |
The bacterium's place in nature / Jan Sapp -- The large-scale structure of the Tree of Life / Norman Pace -- The molecular phylogeny of bacteria based on conserved genes / Wolfgang Ludwig and Karl-Hans Schleifer -- Evolving biological organization / Carl Woese -- If the Tree of Life fell would it make a sound? / W. Ford Doolittle -- Woe is the Tree of Life / Bill Martin -- The robustness of intermediary metabolism / Harold Morowitz, Daniel Broyles and Howard Lasus -- Molecular sequences and the early history of life / Radhey Gupta -- Fulfilling Darwin's dream / James Lake ... [et al.] -- Paradigm lost / Charles Kurland -- Contemporary issues in mitochondrial origins and evolution / Michael Gray -- On the origin and evolution of plastids / John Archibald and Patrick Keeling -- The karyomastigont model of eukaryosis / Hanna Melnitsky, Frederick A. Rainey and Lynn Margulis -- The missing piece: the microtubule cytoskeleton / Michael Dolan -- Heritable microorganisms and reproductive parasitism / John Werren |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Microorganisms -- Evolution.
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Bacteria -- genetics.
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Evolution, Molecular.
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Genetics, Microbial.
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Phylogeny.
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Sequence Analysis.
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Author |
Sapp, Jan.
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LC no. |
2004000656 |
ISBN |
0195168771 : |
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0195168771 (alk. paper) |
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