| Description |
253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Molecular biology intelligence unit |
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Molecular biology intelligence unit.
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| Contents |
The early earth / Oliver Botta and Jeffrey L. Bada -- Reconstructing the universal tree of life / James R. Brown -- The nature of the last common ancestor / Luis Delaye, Arturo Becerra, and Antonio Lazcano -- Ribozyme-catalyzed genetics / Donald H. Burke -- The scope of selection / Michael Yarus and Rob Knight -- The evolutionary history of the translation machinery / George E. Fox and Ashwinikumar K. Naik -- Functional evolution of ribosomes / C. Briones and R. Amils -- Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as clues to establishment of the genetic code / Lluis Ribas de Pouplana and Paul Schimmel -- The relation between function, structure, and evolution of elongation factors Tu / Mathias Sprinzl -- Origin and evolution of DNA and DNA replication machineries / Patrick Forterre, Jonathan Filíe, and Hannu Myllykallio -- Early evolution of DNA repair mechanisms / Jocelyne DiRuggiero and Frank T. Robb -- Extant variations in the genetic code / Manuel A.S. Santos and Mick F. Tuite -- Adaptive evolution of the genetic code / Rob D. Knight, S.J. Freeland, and Laura F. Landweber -- Expanding the genetic code in vitro and in vivo / Thomas J. Magliery and David R. Liu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Evolutionary genetics.
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Genetic code.
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Genetic Code.
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Evolution, Molecular.
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| Author |
Ribas de Pouplana, Lluís.
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| LC no. |
2004015694 |
| ISBN |
0306478439 hardback |
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