Biological innovations that built the world : a four-billion-year journey through life and earth history /: a four-billion-year journey through life and earth history. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roberto Ligrone.
• Authors: Ligrone, Roberto
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: The Origins; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Birth of the Solar System; 2.3 The Earth; 2.4 The Activation of Tectonics; 2.5 Tectonic Processes Are Essential to Life; 2.5.1 Tectonics Drives a Powerful Global Thermostat; 2.5.2 Tectonics Recycles Bioelements; 2.6 Birth of the Atmosphere-Ocean-Continental Crust System; References; Chapter 3: The Birth of Life; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents as Settings for the Emergence of Life; 3.3 A Primordial Role for RNA?; 3.4 The Genetic Code 3.5 A RNA-Protein World3.6 Biological Membranes; 3.7 From Geochemistry to Biochemistry: The Emergence of an Autonomous Metabolism; 3.8 DNA Replaced RNA as the Repository of Biological Information; 3.9 The Bacterial-Archaeal Divide: Ancestral or Derived?; 3.10 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 4: Moving to the Light: The Evolution of Photosynthesis; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Light, Pigments and Photosystems; 4.3 Accessory Pigments; 4.4 The Photochemical Pathway in Anoxygenic Bacteria; 4.5 Evolutionary Interrelationships of Type-1 and Type-2 Photosystems; 4.6 Oxygenic Photosynthesis 4.7 Pathways of Carbon Photosynthetic FixationReferences; Chapter 5: The Great Oxygenation Event; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Planetary Oxygen Balance; 5.3 Methane Was Probably as a Key Driver of Planetary Oxygenation; 5.4 The GOE Was Associated with a Long Phase of Climatic Instability; 5.5 After the GOE, the Earth Stabilized in a Low-Oxygen State for over 1 Billion Years; 5.6 The Earth Entered a High-Oxygen Phase About 800 Million Years Ago; 5.7 The Impact of Oxygen on Biological Evolution; References; Chapter 6: Eukaryotes; 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Rise and Fall of the Archaezoan Model of Eukaryogenesis6.3 Post-archaezoan Models; 6.4 The Neomuran Model; 6.5 The Origin of the Nucleus; 6.6 Was the Host a Primitive Eukaryote or a Complex Archaeon?; 6.7 The Mitochondria; 6.7.1 Facts About Mitochondria; 6.8 The Last Eukaryote Common Ancestor (LECA) Possessed a Full Set of Fundamental Eukaryotic Traits; 6.9 Eukaryote Phylogeny and Systematics; 6.10 Dating Eukaryote Appearance and Diversification; 6.11 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 7: Sexual Reproduction; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Origin of Meiotic Sex 7.3 The Case of Parthenogenetic Rotifers7.4 Sexual Reproduction Sets Strong Species Boundaries in Eukaryotes; 7.5 Species Boundary in Prokaryotes Is Conventional; 7.6 Gamete Differentiation and Genders; References; Chapter 8: Multicellularity; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Cellular Specialization and Levels of Organization in Multicellular Organisms; 8.3 Stem Cells and Germ Line; 8.4 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 9: The Chloroplast and Photosynthetic Eukaryotes; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Birth of the Primary Chloroplast; 9.3 The Plants (Archaeplastida); 9.4 Secondary Chloroplasts
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 570.9; Biology -- History; NATURE / Reference; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3030160572; 9783030160579
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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