| Description |
xxii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The endosymbiotic theory : Several prokaryotes make a eukaryote ; Precursors of life ; Fermenters ; Photosynthesis and air ; Associations and eukaryotes -- 2. Diversity : Classification and evolution ; Prokaryotes and eukaryotes ; Five kingdoms -- 3. Cell evolution in perspective : Direct filiation ; The botanical myth ; Disreputable theories of cell symbiosis -- 4. Before cells : The geological context ; The cosmic cooker: nonbiological organic compounds ; Meteorites ; Making life in the laboratory -- 5. Evolution before oxygen : Criteria for relatedness ; Anaerobic innovations ; The pre-Phanerozoic fossil record -- 6. Atmospheric oxygen from photosynthesis : Aerobiosis in microbes ; Clues from organic geochemistry ; The Proterozoic fossil record |
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7. Symbioses in evolution : Interactions in nature; symbiosis as parasexuality ; From symbionts to organelles ; Paradigm symbioses ; Genetic analysis of symbiosis, some terminology -- 8. Aerobiosis and mitochondria : Mitochondria: acquisition by whom? ; A pathogen becomes an organelle: a mitochondrial analogy ; Mitochondrial mutants ; Promiscuity in yeast mitochondria ; Refining and interfacing: the mix-match principle ; Cytoplasmic heredity: cells within cells ; Mitochondria and nucleocytoplasm: living happily ever after -- 9. Undulipodia, mitosis, and meiosis : Protoctist cell division ; Microtubules, kinetosomes, and mitosis ; Toward mitosis -- 10. Spirochetes and undulipodia : Symbiotic origin of microtubule systems? ; What are spirochetes? ; Spirochete behavior: free-living to symbiotic ; Motility symbioses ; Microtubules in prokaryotes? ; Origins of undulipodia and MC RNA -- 11. Photosynthesis in plastids : Genetic continuity of plastids ; Chloroplast genes: the many genomes of plants ; Transition from symbionts to organelles: rare or common occurrences? -- 12. Phanerozoic consequences : Calcium and skeletons ; Plants, animals, and chromosomes ; Gaia today: the extent of the biosphere |
| Analysis |
Organisms Cells Evolution Role of symbiosis |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [365]-392 |
| Subject |
Paleontology -- Precambrian.
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Eukaryotic cells -- Evolution.
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Symbiosis.
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Symbiogenesis.
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Cells -- Evolution.
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Life -- Origin.
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Life -- Origin
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Origin of Life.
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Biological Evolution.
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Organelle Biogenesis.
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Evolution
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Biogenesis
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Symbiosis.
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| LC no. |
80026695 |
| ISBN |
0716712555 |
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0716712563 paperback |
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