Molecular evolution of physiological processes
Subtitle: Society of General Physiologists, 47th Annual Symposium
By: edited by Douglas M. Fambrough.
Contributors: Fambrough, Douglas M.
Series: Society of General Physiologists series ;; v. 49
Publisher: Rockefeller University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Life -- Origin -- Congresses; Molecular evolution -- Congresses; Biological diversity -- Physiological aspects -- Congresses; Proteins -- Evolution -- Congresses; Phylogeny -- Congresses; Cell membranes -- Congresses; Cell physiology -- Congresses; Cells -- physiology -- congresses; Genetics, Biochemical -- physiology -- congresses; Evolution -- congresses; Physiology -- genetics -- congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 8-11 September, 1993."
Table of contents: title: Interpretation of diversity : homology testing and generation of phylogenetic trees. Molecular clocks are not as bad as you think / W.M. Fitch and F.J. Ayala; title: Reconstructing the history of evolutionary processes using maximum likelihood / Michael J. Sanderson; title: Introns, the broken transposons / Andrew J. Roger, Patrick J. Keeling, and W. Ford Doolittle; title: Monophyletic origin of animals : a shared ancestry with the fungi / Patricia O. Wainright, David J. Patterson, and Mitchell L. Sogin; title: To tree the truth : biological and numerical simulations of phylogeny / David M. Hillis and John P. Huelsenbeck; title: Genome organization and the generation of diversity. Transposable elements and the evolution of heterochromatin / Allan C. Spradling; title: Gene conversion and the evolution of gene families in mammals / John C. Schimenti; title: Functional polymorphism in class I major histocompatibility complex genes / Peter Parham; title: The generation of protein isoform diversity by alternative RNA splicing / David M. Helfman.; title: (Cont.) Evolution of the actin and myosin-related families of cytoskeletal proteins. Profilins, ancient actin binding proteins with highly divergent primary structures / Thomas D. Pollard and Stephen Quirk. The evolution of the chicken sarcomeric myosin heavy chain multigene family / Everett Bandman ... [et al.]; title: Molecular evolution of the myosin superfamily : application of phylogenetic techniques to cell biological questions / Holly V. Goodson; title: Diversity of myosin-based motility : multiple genes and functions / Allison Weiss, D.C. Ghislaine Mayer, and Leslie A. Leinwand; title: The actin protein superfamily / Christine Fyrberg ... [et al.]; title: Structure, function, evolution of plasma membrane proteins. Ion channels of microbes / Yoshiro Saimi ... [et al.]; title: Using sequence homology to analyze the structure and function of voltage-gated ion channel proteins / H. Robert Guy and Stewart R. Durell; title: Molecular evolution of K+ channels in primitive eukaryotes / Timothy Jegla and Lawrence Salkoff; title: The connexins and their family tree / M.V.L. Bennett, X. Zheng, and M.L. Sogin.; title: (Cont.) Relationships of G-protein-coupled receptors. A survey with the photoreceptor opsin subfamily / Meredithe L. Applebury; title: Evolution of the G protein alpha subunit multigene family / Thomas M. Wilkie and Shozo Yokoyama; title: Molecular evolution of the calcium-transporting ATPases analyzed by the maximum parsimony method / Yan Song and Douglas Fambrough.