Colloquium on Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms--Toward a New Synthesis--50 Years After Stebbins / / [edited by Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, and Michael I. Clegg]

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy of Sciences, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (127 p.)
• Disciplina: 581.3/8
• Soggetto topico: Plants - Evolution; Plants - Variation
• Altri autori: AyalaFrancisco Jose <1934-> FitchWalter M. <1929-2011.> CheggMichael I
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: COLLOQUIUM ON Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis: 50 Years after Stebbins -- NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Colloquium Series -- National Academy of Sciences Colloquia Bound Reprints Available -- Contents -- Introduction -- VARIATION AND EVOLUTION IN PLANTS AND MICROORGANISMS: TOWARD A NEW SYNTHESIS 50 YEARS AFTER STEBBINS -- Early Evolution and the Origin of Cells -- Viral and Bacterial Models -- Protoctist Models -- Population Variation -- Trends and Patterns in Plant Evolution -- Colloquium -- G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000): An appreciation -- Solution to Darwin's dilemma: Discovery of the missing Precambrian record of life -- PIONEERING PATHFINDERS -- EMERGENCE OF A NEW FIELD OF SCIENCE -- LESSONS FROM THE HUNT -- The chimeric eukaryote: Origin of the nucleus from the karyomastigont in amitochondriate protists -- TWO DOMAINS, NOT THREE -- THE CHIMERA: ARCHAEBACTERIUM/EUBACTERIUM MERGER -- THE "THIODENDRON" STAGE -- KARYOMASTIGONTS PRECEDED NUCLEI -- Dynamic evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes: Mobile genes and introns and highly variable mutation rates -- The evolution of RNA viruses: A population genetics view -- RNA VIRUSES: BIOLOGICAL AND POPULATION PROPERTIES -- RNA VIRUSES MEET THE POPULATION GENETICS THEORY OF EVOLUTION: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- EXPERIMENTAL VIRUS MODEL AND FITNESS ASSAYS -- THE DYNAMICS OF DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS IN FINITE POPULATIONS -- ADAPTATION: COMPETITION IN CONSTANT, CHANGING, AND SUBDIVIDED ENVIRONMENTS -- CLONAL INTERFERENCE IMPOSES A LIMIT ON THE RATE OF VIRUS ADAPTATION -- NUCLEOTIDE DIVERSITY AND FITNESS RECOVERY IN THE EVOLUTION OF A HIGHLY DEBILITATED VSV EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION: THE SAMPLING -- QUASISPECIES AND POPULATION GENETICS THEORIES OF THE EVOLUTION OF RNA VIRUSES. ; Effects of passage history and sampling bias on phylogenetic reconstruction of human influenza A evolution -- DESCRIPTION OF DATA SET AND DEFINITION OF TERMS -- HYPOTHESIS 1: HM MUTATIONS -- HYPOTHESIS 2: SAMPLING BIAS -- DISCUSSION -- Bacteria are different: Observations, interpretations, speculations, and opinions about the mechanisms of adaptive evolution -- OBSERVATIONS -- INTERPRETATIONS, SPECULATIONS, AND OPINIONS -- CONCLUSION -- Evolution of RNA editing in trypanosome mitochondria -- KINETOPLASTID PROTISTS CONSIST OF TWO MAJOR GROUPS: THE TRYPANOSOMATIDS AND THE BODONIDS -- KINETOPLASTIDS CONTAIN A SINGLE EXTENDED TUBULAR MITOCHONDRION WITH AN UNUSUAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA -- U-INSERTION/DELETION RNA EDITING -- C TO U EDITING AND THE ORIGIN OF URIDINE-INSERTION EDITING IN TRYPANOSOMES -- CONCLUSIONS -- Population structure and recent evolution of Plasmodium falciparum -- THE MALARIA PLAGUE AND CONTROL EFFORTS -- EVOLUTIONARY ASSOCIATION OF P. FALCIPARUM WITH THE HOMINID LINEAGE -- MALARIA'S EVE: RECENT ORIGIN OF P. FALCIPARUM WORLD POPULATIONS -- THE RECENT ORIGIN OF P. FALCIPARUM POPULATIONS VIS-À-VIS ANTIGENIC POLYMORPHISMS -- THE CSP -- CRYPTIC REPEATS IN THE MSP-1 POLYMORPHISM -- MSP-2 POLYMORPHISM -- ANTIGENIC POLYMORPHISM, INTRAGENIC RECOMBINATION, AND POPULATION STRUCTURE -- Transposons and genome evolution in plants -- THE DISCOVERY OF TRANSPOSITION -- PLANT TRANSPOSONS IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS -- WHAT DO TRANSPOSONS DO? -- THE PARADOX -- SYNTENY AND DIVERGENCE -- PLANT GENOMES EXPAND -- TRANSPOSITION -- AMPLIFICATION AND REARRANGEMENT -- GENOME CONTRACTION -- CONTROLLING TRANSCRIPTION, RECOMBINATION, AND TRANSPOSITION -- HOMOLOGY-DEPENDENT GENE SILENCING -- THE ORIGIN OF TRANSPOSONS AND METHYLATION -- CONCLUSIONS -- Maize as a model for the evolution of plant nuclear genomes -- POLYPLOIDY AND CHROMOSOMAL DUPLICATION. ; MULTIPLICATION OF REPEAT SEQUENCES -- GENETIC VARIATION IN GENES ALONG CHROMOSOMES -- Flower color variation: A model for the experimental study of evolution -- CONCLUSIONS -- Gene genealogies and population variation in plants -- Toward a new synthesis: Major evolutionary trends in the angiosperm fossil record -- WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT EARLY ANGIOSPERM DIVERSITY DURING THE CRETACEOUS? -- HOW HAS ANGIOSPERM REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY CHANGED THROUGH TIME? -- WHY DID ANGIOSPERMS EVOLVE? -- Reproductive systems and evolution in vascular plants -- MODES OF REPRODUCTION -- CONSEQUENCES OF REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS -- EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS -- THE COST OF SEX -- CONCLUSIONS -- Hybridization as a stimulus for the evolution of invasiveness in plants? -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids -- ALLO- VERSUS AUTOPOLYPLOIDY -- INCREASED HETEROZYGOSITY -- OUTCROSSING RATES IN POLYPLOIDS AND THEIR DIPLOID PROGENITORS -- THE GENETIC IMPLICATIONS OF RECURRENT POLYPLOID FORMATION -- GENOME REARRANGEMENTS IN POLYPLOIDS -- ANCIENT POLYPLOIDY AND GENE SILENCING -- CONCLUSIONS -- 2001 Order Form.
• Titolo autorizzato: Colloquium on Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms--Toward a New Synthesis--50 Years After Stebbins
• ISBN: 1-280-18547-3; 9786610185474; 0-309-58912-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816704603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: National Academy of Sciences colloquium series.