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Nathalie . Ed(S): Gontier - Reticulate Evolution - 9783319163444 - V9783319163444
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Reticulate Evolution

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Description for Reticulate Evolution Hardback. Editor(s): Gontier, Nathalie. Series: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research. Num Pages: 337 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, 54 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 689.

Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, hybridization or divergence with gene flow and infectious heredity. By applying key insights from the areas of molecular (phylo)genetics, microbiology, virology, ecology, systematics, immunology, epidemiology and computational science, they demonstrate how reticulate evolution impacts successful survival, fitness and speciation.

Reticulate evolution brings forth a challenge to the standard ... Read more

The case studies presented examine topics including the origin of the eukaryotic cell and its organelles through symbiogenesis; the origin of algae through primary and secondary symbiosis and dinoflagellates through tertiary symbiosis; the superorganism and holobiont as units of evolution; how endosymbiosis induces speciation in multicellular life forms; transferrable and non-transferrable plasmids and how they symbiotically interact with their host; the means by which pro- and eukaryotic organisms transfer genes laterally (bacterial transformation, transduction and conjugation as well as transposons and other mobile genetic elements); hybridization and divergence with gene flow in sexually-reproducing individuals; current (human) microbiome and viriome studies that impact our knowledge concerning the evolution of organismal health and acquired immunity; and how symbiosis and symbiogenesis can be modelled in computational evolution.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
Series
Interdisciplinary Evolution Research
Number of Pages
337
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319163444
SKU
V9783319163444
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Ref
99-15

About Nathalie . Ed(S): Gontier
Nathalie Gontier is a philosopher of science and an anthropologist. Her main research interests lie in evolutionary epistemology and non-Darwinian evolutionary theories, how the latter differ from the Modern Synthesis and how they can be implemented into the linguistic sciences and the overall sociocultural domain. As the founding director of the Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, she is affiliated to ... Read more

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