Colloquium on Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms--Toward a New Synthesis--50 Years After Stebbins / [edited by Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, and Michael I. Clegg].

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Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Colloquium on Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis: 50 Years After Stebbins, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Ayala, Francisco J. (Francisco José), 1934-2023.

Fitch, Walter M., 1929-2011.

Chegg, Michael I.

Conference Name:

Colloquium on Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis: 50 years After Stebbins (2000 : Irvine, Calif.)

Colloquium on Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis: 50 Years After Stebbins

Series:

National Academy of Sciences colloquium series.

National Academy of Sciences colloquium series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plants--Evolution--Congresses.

Plants.

Plants--Variation--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy of Sciences, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1991, the National Academy of Sciences inaugurated a series of scientific colloquia, five or six of which are scheduled each year under the guidance of the NAS Council's Committee on Scientific Programs. Each colloquium addresses a scientific topic of broad and topical interest, cutting across two or more of the traditional disciplines. Typically two days long, colloquia are international in scope and bring together leading scientists in the field. Papers from colloquia are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The colloquium "Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years After Stebbins" celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Stebbins' classic book, Variation and Evolution in Plants . Variation and Evolution in Plants , published in 1950, the last of a quartet of classics that, in the second quarter of the 20th century, set forth what became known as the "synthetic theory of evolution" or "the modern synthesis." The other books are Theodosius Dobzhansky's Genetics and the Origin of Species (2), Ernst Mayr's Systematics and the Origin of Species (3), and George Gaylord Simpson's Tempo and Mode in Evolution (4). The pervading theory of these books is the molding of Darwin's evolution by natural selection within the framework of rapidly advancing genetic knowledge. Variation and Evolution in Plants distinctively extends the scope of the other books to the world of plants. Dobzhansky's perspective was that of the geneticist. Mayr's was that of the zoologist and systematist. Simpson's was that of the paleobiologist. All four books were outcomes of the famed Jesup Lectures at Columbia University. Plants, with their unique genetic, physiological, and evolutionary features, had been left out of the synthesis until then. In 1941, the eminent botanist Edgar Anderson was invited to write botany's analogue to Mayr's Systematics and the Origin of the Species and to publish it jointly with Mayr's book. Anderson did not fulfill the task, and Stebbins was thereafter invited to deliver the Jesup Lectures in 1947. Variation and Evolution in Plants is the outgrowth of those Lectures.

Contents:

COLLOQUIUM ON Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis: 50 Years after Stebbins

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Colloquium Series

National Academy of Sciences Colloquia Bound Reprints Available

Contents

Introduction

VARIATION AND EVOLUTION IN PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS: TOWARD A NEW SYNTHESIS 50 YEARS AFTER STEBBINS

Early Evolution and the Origin of Cells

Viral and Bacterial Models

Protoctist Models

Population Variation

Trends and Patterns in Plant Evolution

Colloquium

G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000): An appreciation

Solution to Darwin's dilemma: Discovery of the missing Precambrian record of life

PIONEERING PATHFINDERS

EMERGENCE OF A NEW FIELD OF SCIENCE

LESSONS FROM THE HUNT

The chimeric eukaryote: Origin of the nucleus from the karyomastigont in amitochondriate protists

TWO DOMAINS, NOT THREE

THE CHIMERA: ARCHAEBACTERIUM/EUBACTERIUM MERGER

THE "THIODENDRON" STAGE

KARYOMASTIGONTS PRECEDED NUCLEI

Dynamic evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes: Mobile genes and introns and highly variable mutation rates

The evolution of RNA viruses: A population genetics view

RNA VIRUSES: BIOLOGICAL AND POPULATION PROPERTIES

RNA VIRUSES MEET THE POPULATION GENETICS THEORY OF EVOLUTION: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

EXPERIMENTAL VIRUS MODEL AND FITNESS ASSAYS

THE DYNAMICS OF DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS IN FINITE POPULATIONS

ADAPTATION: COMPETITION IN CONSTANT, CHANGING, AND SUBDIVIDED ENVIRONMENTS

CLONAL INTERFERENCE IMPOSES A LIMIT ON THE RATE OF VIRUS ADAPTATION

NUCLEOTIDE DIVERSITY AND FITNESS RECOVERY IN THE EVOLUTION OF A HIGHLY DEBILITATED VSV EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION: THE SAMPLING

QUASISPECIES AND POPULATION GENETICS THEORIES OF THE EVOLUTION OF RNA VIRUSES.

Effects of passage history and sampling bias on phylogenetic reconstruction of human influenza A evolution

DESCRIPTION OF DATA SET AND DEFINITION OF TERMS

HYPOTHESIS 1: HM MUTATIONS

HYPOTHESIS 2: SAMPLING BIAS

DISCUSSION

Bacteria are different: Observations, interpretations, speculations, and opinions about the mechanisms of adaptive evolution

OBSERVATIONS

INTERPRETATIONS, SPECULATIONS, AND OPINIONS

CONCLUSION

Evolution of RNA editing in trypanosome mitochondria

KINETOPLASTID PROTISTS CONSIST OF TWO MAJOR GROUPS: THE TRYPANOSOMATIDS AND THE BODONIDS

KINETOPLASTIDS CONTAIN A SINGLE EXTENDED TUBULAR MITOCHONDRION WITH AN UNUSUAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA

U-INSERTION/DELETION RNA EDITING

C TO U EDITING AND THE ORIGIN OF URIDINE-INSERTION EDITING IN TRYPANOSOMES

CONCLUSIONS

Population structure and recent evolution of Plasmodium falciparum

THE MALARIA PLAGUE AND CONTROL EFFORTS

EVOLUTIONARY ASSOCIATION OF P. FALCIPARUM WITH THE HOMINID LINEAGE

MALARIA'S EVE: RECENT ORIGIN OF P. FALCIPARUM WORLD POPULATIONS

THE RECENT ORIGIN OF P. FALCIPARUM POPULATIONS VIS-À-VIS ANTIGENIC POLYMORPHISMS

THE CSP

CRYPTIC REPEATS IN THE MSP-1 POLYMORPHISM

MSP-2 POLYMORPHISM

ANTIGENIC POLYMORPHISM, INTRAGENIC RECOMBINATION, AND POPULATION STRUCTURE

Transposons and genome evolution in plants

THE DISCOVERY OF TRANSPOSITION

PLANT TRANSPOSONS IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS

WHAT DO TRANSPOSONS DO?

THE PARADOX

SYNTENY AND DIVERGENCE

PLANT GENOMES EXPAND

TRANSPOSITION

AMPLIFICATION AND REARRANGEMENT

GENOME CONTRACTION

CONTROLLING TRANSCRIPTION, RECOMBINATION, AND TRANSPOSITION

HOMOLOGY-DEPENDENT GENE SILENCING

THE ORIGIN OF TRANSPOSONS AND METHYLATION

Maize as a model for the evolution of plant nuclear genomes

POLYPLOIDY AND CHROMOSOMAL DUPLICATION.

MULTIPLICATION OF REPEAT SEQUENCES

GENETIC VARIATION IN GENES ALONG CHROMOSOMES

Flower color variation: A model for the experimental study of evolution

Gene genealogies and population variation in plants

Toward a new synthesis: Major evolutionary trends in the angiosperm fossil record

WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT EARLY ANGIOSPERM DIVERSITY DURING THE CRETACEOUS?

HOW HAS ANGIOSPERM REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY CHANGED THROUGH TIME?

WHY DID ANGIOSPERMS EVOLVE?

Reproductive systems and evolution in vascular plants

MODES OF REPRODUCTION

CONSEQUENCES OF REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS

EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS

THE COST OF SEX

Hybridization as a stimulus for the evolution of invasiveness in plants?

MATERIALS AND METHODS

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids

ALLO- VERSUS AUTOPOLYPLOIDY

INCREASED HETEROZYGOSITY

OUTCROSSING RATES IN POLYPLOIDS AND THEIR DIPLOID PROGENITORS

THE GENETIC IMPLICATIONS OF RECURRENT POLYPLOID FORMATION

GENOME REARRANGEMENTS IN POLYPLOIDS

ANCIENT POLYPLOIDY AND GENE SILENCING

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-18547-3

9786610185474

0-309-58912-6

OCLC:

70725023