The Tree of Life. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pablo Vargas, Pablo Vargas, Rafael Zardoya.
• Authors: Vargas, Pablo
• Editors: Vargas, Pablo; Zardoya, Rafael
• Contents: Presentation; Preface, Francisco Ayala; Prologue, Michael J. Donoghue; Introduction; 1. Systematics: Charting the Tree of Life; Fredrik Ronquist; 2. Great Domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya; David Moreira; 3. Archaea and Bacteria: The Prokaryotic Cell Organization; Ramón Rosselló and Josefa Antón; 4. The Domain Eucarya: The Rise of Organisms with Nucleated Cells; Guifré Torruella, David Moreira, and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo; 5. The Former 'Protists': Amoebozoa, Rhizaria, Excavata, Haptophyta, Cryptophyta, Heterokonta, and Alveolata; Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, David Moreira, and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo; 6. Plants: Origin of Glaucophytes and Rhodophytes, before Land Plant Diversification; Adrian Reyes-Prieto; 7. Chlorobionts: Ancestors of Land Plants; Francisco F. Pedroche; 8. Embryophytes: Early Land Plants; Josep A. Rosselló; 9. Tracheophytes: Land Conquest by Vascular Plants; Virginia Valcárcel and Pablo Vargas; 10. Ferns: Vascular Plants that Reproduce by Spores; Santiago Pajarón and Emilia Pangua; 11. Conifers: The Most Diverse Group of Seed Plants; David S. Gernandt and Alejandra Vázquez Lobo; 12. Angiosperms: Plants with Flowers that Produce Fruits; Pablo Vargas; 13. Monocotelydons: Great Diversity of an Ancient Angiosperm Lineage; Modesto Luceño and Santiago Martín-Bravo; 14. Eudicotyledons: The Greatest Flower Diversity in Angiosperms; SGBana Magallón and Pablo Vargas; 15. Fungi: Hyperdiversity Closer to Animals than to Plants; Ana Crespo, Pradeep K. Divakar, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch; 16. Metazoans: The Rise of Early Animals; Manuel Maldonado; 17. Eumetazoans: The Rise of Tissue and Guts; André C. Morandini and Mónica Medina; 18. Bilaterians: The Evolutionary Advantage of Being Two-sided; Marta Riutort, Jordi Paps, and Iñaki Rúiz-Trillo; 19. Protostomes: The Greatest Animal Diversity; Gonzalo Giribet; 20. Spiralians: Animals with Spiral Cleavage and Their Relatives; Gonzalo Giribet; 21. MollGBcs: Diversity of Shells and Soft Bodies; Cristina Grande and Rafa Zardoya; 22. Annelids: Segmented Worms; M. Teresa Aguado, María Capa, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa, and Greg W. RoGBe; 23. Platyhelminthes: Are Flatworms Simple or Simplified?; Marta Riutort; 24. Ecdysozoans: The Molting Animals; Noemí Guil and Gonzalo Giribet; 25. Nematodes: The UbiquitoGB Roundworms; Alfonso Navas; 26. Panarthropods: Arthropods and Their Closest Relatives; GGBtavo Hormiga and Jesús Ballesteros Chávez; 27. Chelicerates: The Eight-Legged Colonization of Land; Miquel Arnedo and Carles Ribera; 28. Mandibulates: Arthropods with Mandibles; Marcos Pérez-Losada; 29. Hexapods: Insects and Closely Related Groups; Ignacio Ribera; 30. Odonates: Dragonflies and Damselflies; Adolfo Cordero; 31. Orthopterans: Grasshoppers and Katydids, the First Singers on Earth; Mario García-París; 32. Hemipterans: The Largest HemimetaboloGB Insect Order; Dora Aguin Pombo and Thierry Bourgoin; 33. Coleopterans: Beetles; Ignacio Ribera and Rolf G. Beutel; 34. Hymenopterans: Ants, Bees, Wasps, and the Majority of Insect Parasitoids; Jose L. Nieves Aldrey and Mike Sharkey; 35. Dipterans: Two-winged Flies; David Yeates and Dalton de Souza Amorim; 36. Lepidopterans: Butterflies and Moths; Roger Vila; 37. Deuterostomes: The Ancestry of Vertebrates; José Castresana; 38. Echinoderms: Reinventing Radial Symmetry; Samuel Zamora, Patricio Domínguez and Pablo Vargas; 39. Chordates: The Acquisition of an Axial Backbone; Stéphanie Bertrand and Héctor Escrivá; 40. Actinopterygians: The Extraordinary Diversity of Ray-Finned Fishes; Ignacio Doadrio and Omar Domínguez-Domínguez; 41. Sarcopterygians: The Rise of Land Vertebrates; Rafael Zardoya; 42. Amphibians: Land Conquest by Vertebrates; Diego San Mauro; 43. Mammals: Prolific Speciation after Dinosaurs' Demise; Pablo Vargas; 44. Sauropsids: Reptilian Relationships, including Aves; Salvador Carranza; 45. Aves: Birds, the Living Descendants of Flying Dinosaurs; Per G. P. Ericson; 46. Speciation; Antonio Fontdevila; 47. Biogeography; Isabel Sanmartín; 48. Evolution on Islands; Pablo Vargas; 49. Evolutionary Ecology; Patrick S. Fitze; 50. Evolution of Behavior; Patrick S. Fitze; 51. Phylogenies and the Evolution of Development; Ehab Abouheif; 52. Symbiosis; Andrés Moya and Amparo Latorre; 53. Phylogenetic Techniques and Markers; Pilar Catalán and Fernando González-Candelas; 54. Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees; David Posada; 55. Analysis of Genetic Variation and Intraspecific Phylogenies; Julio Rozas and Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (740 pages)
• Subjects: Life Sciences/Evolution; Genetics (non-medical)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781605355375; 1605355372
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.