Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution : Concepts and Controversies
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| Title: | Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution : Concepts and Controversies |
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| Description: | The birth of bacterial genomics since the mid-1990s brought withit several conceptual modifications and wholly new controversies. Working beyond the scope of the neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis, a group of leading microbial evolutionists addresses the following and related issues, often with markedly varied viewpoints: · Did the eukaryotic nucleus, cytoskeleton and cilia also orginate from symbiosis? · Do the current scenarios about he origin of mitochondria and plastids require revision? · What is the extent of lateral gene transfer (between'species') among bacteria? · Does the rDNA phylogenetic tree still stand in the age of genomics? · Is the course of the first 3 billion years of evolution even knowable? |
| Authors: | Jan Sapp |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Microorganisms--Evolution, Bacteria--genetics, Evolution, Molecular, Genetics, Microbial, Phylogeny, Sequence Analysis |
| Categories: | SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The birth of bacterial genomics since the mid-1990s brought withit several conceptual modifications and wholly new controversies. Working beyond the scope of the neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis, a group of leading microbial evolutionists addresses the following and related issues, often with markedly varied viewpoints: · Did the eukaryotic nucleus, cytoskeleton and cilia also orginate from symbiosis? · Do the current scenarios about he origin of mitochondria and plastids require revision? · What is the extent of lateral gene transfer (between'species') among bacteria? · Does the rDNA phylogenetic tree still stand in the age of genomics? · Is the course of the first 3 billion years of evolution even knowable? |
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| ISBN: | 9780195168778 9780190290726 9781423720553 9780198037774 |
