Microbial phylogeny and evolution concepts and controversies / [electronic resource] : edited by Jan Sapp. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. - xxi, 326 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The bacterium's place in nature / The large-scale structure of the Tree of Life / The molecular phylogeny of bacteria based on conserved genes / Evolving biological organization / If the Tree of Life fell would it make a sound? / Woe is the Tree of Life / The robustness of intermediary metabolism / Molecular sequences and the early history of life / Paradigm lost / Contemporary issues in mitochondrial origins and evolution / On the origin and evolution of plastids / The karyomastigont model of eukaryosis / The missing piece: the microtubule cytoskeleton and the origin of eukaryotes / Heritable microorganisms and reproductive parasitism / Jan Sapp -- Norman R. Pace -- Wolfgang Ludwig and Karl-Hans Schleifer -- Carl Woese -- W. Ford Doolittle -- William Martin -- Harold J. Morowitz, Daniel Broyles and Howard Lasus -- Radhey Gupta -- Fulfilling Darwin's dream / James Lake ... [et al.] -- C.G. Kurland -- Michael W. Gray -- John M. Archibald and Patrick J. Keeling -- Hanna Melnitsky, Frederick A. Rainey and Lynn Margulis -- Michael F. Dolan -- John H. Werren.


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