The genetic code and the origin of life
By: [edited by] Lluís Ribas de Pouplana
Contributors: Ribas de Pouplana, Lluís
Series: Molecular biology intelligence unit; Molecular biology intelligence unit (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com; Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Georgetown, Tex; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Evolutionary genetics; Genetic code
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The early earth / Oliver Botta and Jeffrey L. Bada; title: Reconstructing the universal tree of life / James R. Brown; title: The nature of the last common ancestor / Luis Delaye, Arturo Becerra, and Antonio Lazcano; title: Ribozyme-catalyzed genetics / Donald H. Burke; title: The scope of selection / Michael Yarus and Rob D. Knight; title: The evolutionary history of the translation machinery / George E. Fox and Ashwinikumar K. Naik; title: Functional evolution of ribosomes / Carlos Briones and Ricardo Amils; title: Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as clues to establishment of the genetic code / Lluís Ribas de Pouplana and Paul Schimmel; title: The relation between function, structure, and evolution of elongation factors Tu / Mathias Sprinzl; title: Origin and evolution of DNA and DNA replication machineries / Patrick Forterre, Jonathan Filée, and Hannu Myllykallio; title: Early evolution of DNA repair mechanisms / Jocelyne DiRuggiero and Frank T. Robb; title: Extant variations in the genetic code / Manuel A.S. Santos and Mick F. Tuite; title: Adaptive evolution of the genetic code / Rob D. Knight, S.J. Freeland, and Laura F. Landweber; title: Expanding the genetic code in vitro and in vivo / Thomas J. Magliery and David R. Liu