John Archibald (Department of Biochemistry Professor & Molecular B

One Plus One Equals One

Symbiosis and the evolution of complex life

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Produktbeschreibung

John Archibald chronicles the revolutionary insights provided by modern molecular biology, especially rapid DNA sequencing. These tools demonstrate the unity of all life, and show that complex life originated in ancient mergers between microbes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 174g
• ISBN-13: 9780198758129
• ISBN-10: 019875812X
• Artikelnr.: 45175530

Autorenporträt

John Archibald is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Program in Integrated Microbial Biodiversity, and was a Visiting By-Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 2012. He received his Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in 2001 and returned as a faculty member in 2003 after holding Izaak Walton Killam and Canadian Institutes of Health Research post-doctoral fellowships at the University of British Columbia. He is an Associate Editor for Genome Biology and Evolution and an Editorial Board Member of various journals, including Current Biology, Eukaryotic Cell, and BMC Biology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Life as we don't know it
2: Revolutions in biology
3: The seeds of symbiosis
4: Molecular rulers of life's kingdoms
5: Bacteria becomes organelles: an insider's take
6: The complex cell: when, who, where, and how?
7: Green evolution, green revolution
8: Back to the future
9: Epilogue
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