Genome Evolution
Subtitle: Gene and Genome Duplications and the Origin of Novel Gene Functions
Contributors: A. Meyer (Editor); Y. van de Peer (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781402010217
Subjects: DNA; Evolution; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Life Sciences - Biochemistry; Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Biology; Genomes; Evolutionary genetics
First sentence: A very reasonable, albeit unproven scenario, maintains that early cellular life went through a stage in which RNA macromolecules constituted the major biopolymers (Woese, 1967; Crick, 1968; Orgel, 1968).