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Establishes the foundations of the emerging field of evolutionary cell biology, providing a deep and broad coverage of the literature, with many ideas synthesised and presented for the first time.
List of contents
- Preface
- Part I: Introduction
- 1: Evolutionary Cell Biology
- 2: The Origin of Cells
- 3: The Major Lines of Descent
- Part II: The Genetic Mechanisms of Evolution
- 4: The Population-genetic Environment
- 5: Evolution as a Population-genetic Process
- 6: Evolution of Cellular Complexity
- Part III: Basic Cellular Features
- 7: The Cellular Environment
- 8: Evolutionary Scaling Laws in Cell Biology
- 9: Cell Growth and Division
- 10: The Cell Life Cycle
- 11: Cellular Senescence
- Part IV: Structural Evolution
- 12: The Protein World
- 13: Multimerization
- 14: Protein Management
- 15: Lipids and Membranes
- 16: Cytoskeleton, Cell Shape, and Motility
- Part V: Energetics and Metabolism
- 17: The Costs of Cellular Features
- 18: Resource Acquisition and Homeostasis
- 19: Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways
- Part VI: Information Processing
- 20: Intracellular Errors
- 21: Intracellular Communication: Transcription
- 22: Environmental Sensing and Extracellular Communication
- Part VII: Organismal Complexity
- 23: Endosymbiosis
- 24: Origins of Organismal Complexity
About the author
Mike Lynch is Professor and Director of The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, USA. He was made a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1998), a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002), and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (2009).
Summary
Establishes the foundations of the emerging field of evolutionary cell biology, providing a deep and broad coverage of the literature, with many ideas synthesised and presented for the first time.
