Microbial Phylogeny and Evolution - Concepts and Controversies

Informationen zum Autor Jay Sapp is Professor of History of the Biological Sciences, Department of Biology, York University. Klappentext The birth of bacterial genomics since the mid-1990s brought withit several conceptual modifications and wholly new controversies. Working beyond the scope of the neo-Darwinian evolutionary synthesis, a group of leading microbial evolutionists addresses the following and related issues, often with markedly varied viewpoints: - Did the eukaryotic nucleus, cytoskeleton and cilia also orginate from symbiosis? - Do the current scenarios about he origin of mitochondria and plastids require revision? - What is the extent of lateral gene transfer (between "species") among bacteria? - Does the rDNA phylogenetic tree still stand in the age of genomics? - Is the course of the first 3 billion years of evolution even knowable? Zusammenfassung The extent of lateral gene transfer among diverse microbes has effectively broken down the concept of species when we seek to apply it to the microbial world. This book brings together workers to try to reach an accomodation and consensus on the outline of how cellular life has evolved.

Product details

• Authors: Jan Sapp, Jan (EDT) Sapp
• Assisted by: Jan Sapp (Editor), Jan (Department of Biology Sapp (Editor), Sapp Jan (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2005
• EAN: 9780195168778
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516877-8
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Microbiology (non-medical), Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Cell Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Microbiology, Cellular biology (cytology), Evolution / Evolutionary biology