Microbial phylogeny and evolution
Subtitle: concepts and controversies
By: edited by Jan Sapp
Contributors: Sapp, Jan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Microorganisms -- Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The bacterium's place in nature / Jan Sapp; title: The large-scale structure of the Tree of Life / Norman R. Pace; title: The molecular phylogeny of bacteria based on conserved genes / Wolfgang Ludwig and Karl-Hans Schleifer; title: Evolving biological organization / Carl Woese; title: If the Tree of Life fell would it make a sound? / W. Ford Doolittle; title: Woe is the Tree of Life / William Martin; title: The robustness of intermediary metabolism / Harold J. Morowitz, Daniel Broyles and Howard Lasus; title: Molecular sequences and the early history of life / Radhey Gupta; title: Fulfilling Darwin's dream / James Lake ... [et al.]; title: Paradigm lost / C.G. Kurland; title: Contemporary issues in mitochondrial origins and evolution / Michael W. Gray; title: On the origin and evolution of plastids / John M. Archibald and Patrick J. Keeling; title: The karyomastigont model of eukaryosis / Hanna Melnitsky, Frederick A. Rainey and Lynn Margulis; title: The missing piece: the microtubule cytoskeleton and the origin of eukaryotes / Michael F. Dolan; title: Heritable microorganisms and reproductive parasitism / John H. Werren