Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms : toward a new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins / / Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, and Michael T. Clegg, editors
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| Titolo: |
Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms : toward a new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins / / Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, and Michael T. Clegg, editors
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| Pubblicazione: | Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 581.3/8 |
| Soggetto topico: | Plants - Evolution |
| Plants - Variation | |
| Altri autori: |
AyalaFrancisco Jose <1934->
FitchWalter M. <1929-2011.>
CleggMichael T. <1941->
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""Cover""; ""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Part I EARLY EVOLUTION AND THE ORIGIN OF CELLS""; ""1 G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906�2000) � An Appreciation""; ""2 Solution to Darwin�s Dilemma: Discovery of the Missing Precambrian Record of Life""; ""3 The Chimeric Eukaryote: Origin of the Nucleus from the Karyomastigont in Amitochondriate Protists""; ""4 Dynamic Evolution of Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Mobile Genes and Introns and Highly Variable Mutation Rates""; ""Part II VIRAL AND BACTERIAL MODELS""; ""5 The Evolution of RNA Viruses: A Population Genetics View"" |
| ""6 Effects of Passage History and Sampling Bias on Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Human Influenza A Evolution""""7 Bacteria are Different: Observations, Interpretations, Speculations, and Opinions About the Mechanisms of Adaptive Evolution in Prokaryotes""; ""Part III PROTOCTIST MODELS""; ""8 Evolution of RNA Editing in Trypanosome Mitochondria""; ""9 Population Structure and Recent Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum""; ""Part IV POPULATION VARIATION""; ""10 Transposons and Genome Evolution in Plants""; ""11 Maize as a Model for the Evolution of Plant Nuclear Genomes"" | |
| ""12 Flower Color Variation: A Model for the Experimental Study of Evolution""""13 Gene Genealogies and Population Variation in Plants""; ""Part V TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN PLANT EVOLUTION""; ""14 Toward a New Synthesis: Major Evolutionary Trends in the Angiosperm Fossil Record""; ""15 Reproductive Systems and Evolution in Vascular Plants""; ""16 Hybridization as a Stimulus for the Evolution of Invasiveness in Plants?""; ""17 The Role of Genetic and Genomic Attributes in the Success of Polyploids""; ""Index"" | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms |
| ISBN: | 0-309-17226-8 |
| 0-309-50188-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825653103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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