| Contents |
An overview on eukaryote origins and evolution : the beauty of the cell and the fabulous gene phylogenies / David S. Horner, Robert P. Hirt -- Excavata and the origin of amitochondriate eukaryotes / Alastair G.B. Simpson, Andrew J. Roger -- The evolutionary history of plastids : a molecular phylogenetic perspective / John M. Archibald, Patrick J. Keeling -- Chromalveolate diversity and cell megaevolution : interplay of membranes, genomes and cytoskeleton / Tom Cavalier-Smith -- Origin and evolution of animals, fungi and their unicellular allies (Opisthokonta) / Emma T. Steenkamp, Sandra L. Baldauf -- Pitfalls in tree reconstruction and the phylogeny of eukaryotes / Simonetta Gribaldo, Hervé Philippe -- The importance of evolutionary biology to the analysis of genome data / Deborah Charlesworth -- Eukaryotic phylogeny in the age of genomics : evolutionary implications of functional differences / John W. Stiller -- Genome phylogenies / Robert L. Charlebois, Robert G. Beiko, Mark A. Ragan -- Genomics of microbial parasites : the microsporidial paradigm / Guy Méténier, Christian P. Vivarès -- Evolutionary contribution of plastid genes to plant nuclear genomes and its effects on the composition of the proteomes of all cellular compartments / Dario Leister, Anja Schneider -- Protein translocation machinery in chloroplasts and mitochondria : structure, function and evolution / Hrvoje Fulgosi, Jürgen Soll, Masami Inaba-Sulpice -- Mitosomes, hydrogenosomes and mitochondria; variations on a theme? / Mark van der Giezen, Jorge Tovar -- |
