Archaea
Subtitle: evolution, physiology, and molecular biology
By: edited by Roger A. Garrett and Hans-Peter Klenk.
Contributors: Garrett, Roger A. 1943-; Klenk, Hans-Peter.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781405144049
Subjects: Archaebacteria -- Genetic aspects; Molecular biology; Archaea; Archaea -- genetics; Evolution, Molecular
Description: Drawing on major themes presented at the June 2005 meeting held in Munich to honor the Archaea pioneers Wolfram Zillig and Karl O. Stetter, the book provides a thorough survey of the archaea field from its controversial beginnings to its ongoing expansion to include aspects of eukaryotic biology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-376) and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of the archaea : a personal retrospective / Carl R. Woese; title: Natural history of the archaeal domain / Patrick Forterre, Simonetta Gribaldo, and Celine Brochier-Armanet; title: The root of the tree : lateral gene transfer and the nature of the domains / David A. Walsh ... [et al.]; title: Diversity of uncultivated archaea : perspectives from microbial ecology and metagenomics / Christa Schleper; title: Nanoarchaeota / Harald Huber and Reinhard Rachel; title: Families of DNA viruses infecting hyperthermophilic crenarchaea / David Prangishvili; title: Features of the genomes / Hans-Peter Klenk; title: Sulfolobus genomes : mechanisms of rearrangements and change / Kim Brgger, Xu Peng, and Roger A. Garrett; title: Plasmids / Georg Lipps; title: Integration mechanisms: possible role in genome evolution / Qunxin She, Haojun Zhu, and Xiaoyu Xiang; title: Genetics / Moshe Mevarech and Thorsten Allers; title: Genetic properties of sulfolobus acidocaldarius and related archaea / Dennis W. Grogan; title: Chromatin and regulation / John N. Reeve and Kathleen Sandman; title: DNA replication and the cell cycle / Victoria L. Marsh and Stephen D. Bell; title: DNA repair / Malcolm F. White; title: Transcriptional mechanisms / Michael Thomm and Winfried Hausner; title: Transcriptional regulation in haloarchaea / Felicitas Pfeifer ... [et al.]; title: Aminoacyl-tRNAs : deciphering and defining the genetic message / Alexandre Ambrogelly ... [et al.]; title: Translational mechanisms and protein synthesis / Paola Londei; title: Expanding world of small noncoding RNAs / Arina Omer, Maria Zago, and Patrick P. Dennis; title: Transcriptomics, proteomics, and structural genomics of pyrococcus furiosus / Michael W.W. Adams ... [et al.]; title: Glycolytic pathways : evolution by tinkering / John van der Oost and Bettina Siebers; title: Metabolism of inorganic sulfur compounds in archaea / Arnulf Kletzin; title: Methyl-coenzyme M reductase in methanogens and methanotrophs / Rudolf K. Thauer and Seigo Shima; title: Methylation of metal(loid)s by methanoarchaea : production of volatile derivatives with high ecotoxicological impact and health concern / Klaus Michalke, Jörg Meyer, and Reinhard Hensel; title: Biotechnology / Ksenia Egorova and Garabed Antranikian.