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Integrated molecular evolution /

"Molecular evolution, phylogenetics, genomics, and other related topics are all critical to understanding evolutionary processes. All too frequently, however, they are treated separately in textbooks and courses, such that students fail to connect all of the concepts, principles, and nuances of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rogers, Scott O.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Definitions of life
  • Earth and evolution
  • DNA RNA proteins
  • The central dogma and beyond
  • Evolution of ribosomes, ribosomal RNA, and translation
  • DNA replication
  • DNA segregation
  • Changes to DNA
  • Viruses, plasmids, transposons, and introns
  • Species, taxonomy, and gene flow
  • Multigene families
  • Phylogenetics : evolutionary reconstructions
  • Genomes I : RNA viruses
  • Genomes II : DNA viruses
  • Genomes III : bacteria and archaea
  • Genomes IV : mutualists and pathogens
  • Genomes V : endosymbionts and organelles
  • Genomes VI : eukarya.