Thermophiles
Subtitle: The keys to the molecular evolution and the origin of life?
Contributors: Juergen Wiegel (Editor); Adams W.W. Michael (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: August 27, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780748407477
Subjects: Evolution; Microbiology (non-medical); Science; Science/Mathematics; Life Sciences - Evolution; Science / Microbiology; Life Sciences - Biology - General
First sentence: The rooted global phylogenetic model of Woese and colleagues (Woese at al., 1990; Woese, 1994), based on 16S rRNA sequences, predicts that the oldest of extant organisms are thermophilic and that the common ancestor to all extant organisms (cenancestor) was also thermophilic.