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Microbial phylogeny and evolution : concepts and controversies / edited by Jan Sapp.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sapp, Jan, editor.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Microorganisms--Evolution.
Microorganisms.
Bacteria--genetics.
Evolution, Molecular.
Genetics, Microbial.
Phylogeny.
Sequence Analysis.
Medical Subjects:
Bacteria--genetics.
Evolution, Molecular.
Genetics, Microbial.
Phylogeny.
Sequence Analysis.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (349 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The extent of lateral gene transfer amongst diverse microbes is raising doubt as to the applicability of the concept of species in the microbial world. Leading microbial evolutionists discuss phylogeny & evolutionary theory in the light of the latest discoveries.
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 [and others]
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.
Notes:
Formerly CIP.
Previously issued in print: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references.
Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
ISBN:
9780197701607
0197701604
9780190290726
0190290722
9781280534324
128053432X
9780198037774
0198037775
9781602569973
1602569975
OCLC:
173844365

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