Integrated molecular evolution. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Scott Orland Rogers.
• Authors: Rogers, Scott O, 1953-
• Contents: Definitions of Life ; RNA and Life; Detecting Life; Defining Life; Imagining Cellular and Molecular Dimensions; Earth and Evolution; What is Evolution?; Earth History; A Short History of the Study of Evolution; Earth History as One Year; DNA → RNA → Proteins; Nucleic Acids; Translation; Amino Acids and Polypeptides; Lipids; Carbohydrates; The Central Dogma and Beyond; Ribosomal RNA (rRNA); Transfer RNA (tRNA); Messenger RNA (mRNA); Other Small Noncoding RNA (ncRNA); Beyond the Central Dogma; Evolution of Ribosomes, Ribosomal RNA, and Translation; Ribosomes as Ribozymes; Translation; Origin of the Ribosome; Evolution of the Genetic Code; Why a Triplet Codon?; How Many rRNA Copies Are Needed?; Specific Mechanisms for Increasing rRNA Gene Copy Number; Complexity of Ribosomes; DNA Replication; Variations of Replication; Topology during Replication; Replication of Chromosomes; DNA Segregation; Variations on DNA Segregation in Bacteria (and Archaea); Mitosis; Variations on Mitosis and the Cell Cycle; Variations on Chromosome Number; Changes in DNA Amount during the Cell Cycle; Meiosis; Changes to DNA; Causes of Mutations; Mutation during Replication; Effects of Mutations; DNA Repair; Genetic Recombination; Viruses, Plasmids, Transposons, and Introns; Viruses; Introns; Transposable Elements (Transposons and Retrotransposons); Plasmids; Horizontal Gene Transfers; Species, Taxonomy, and Gene Flow; What Is a Species?; Classification of Life; Reconstruction Evolutionary History; Gene Flow; Multigene Families; Ribosomal RNA Gene Family; Globin Gene Family; Bacterial Flagella Gene Family; Laccase Gene Family; Histone Gene Family; Orthologs and Paralogs; ; Phylogenetics: Evolutionary Reconstructions; Tree Terminology; Choosing Genomic Region; Aligning Sequences; Other Considerations When Performing Phylogenetic Analyses; Analyzing the Aligned Sequence; UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean); Neighbor Joining; Maximum Parsimony; Maximum Likelihood (ML); Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis; Bootstrapping; Vertical versus Horizontal Evolutionary Events; Genomes I: RNA Viruses; C-Value Paradox; Genomics; HIV; Influenza A; Ebola; Genomes II: DNA Viruses; Bacteriophage ϕ X174; Bacteriophage Lambda (λ); Bacteriophage T4; Mimivirus; Genomes III: Bacteria and Archaea; Escherichia coli; Photosynthetic Bacteria; Aquifex; Euryarchaeota; Crenarchaeota; Genomes IV: Mutualists and Pathogens; Termite Gut Microbes; Smallest Bacterial Genome; Co-Resident Symbionts; Animal Parasite; Genome Mixing and Sorting; Genomes V: Endosymbionts and Organelles; Intracellular Endosymbiont; Mitochondria; Chloroplasts; Endosymbioses Leading to Other Organelles Evolution; Genomes VI: Eukaryotic Genomes; Origin of the Nucleus and Mitochondrion; Multicellularity; Chromalveolates; Ophisthokonta (including humans); Plantae; Bibliography ; ; ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 572.838; Molecular evolution
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466503106
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