Reticulate evolution symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer, hybridization, and infectious heredity / Nathalie Gontier, editor.

Other author Gontier, Nathalie.
Other author Universidade de Lisboa. Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCham : Springer ; Lisbon : AppEEL, Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, [2015]
Descriptionxii, 337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
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SeriesInterdisciplinary evolution research, 2199-3068 ; volume 3
Interdisciplinary evolution research ; v. 3. 2199-3068
Contents Reticulate evolution everywhere / Nathalie Gontier -- Symbiosis : evolution's co-author / Douglas Zook -- Can we understand evolution without symbiogenesis? / Francisco Carrapiço -- Novel endosymbioses as a catalyst of fast speciation / Vitor G. Faria and Élio Sucena -- Historical and epistemological perspectives on what horizontal gene transfer mechanisms contribute to our understanding of evolution / Nathalie Gontier -- Plasmids : histories of a concept / William C. Summers -- Symbiosis between non-transferable plasmids and prokaryotic cells / Francisco Dionisio, João Alves Gama and André F.P. Carvalho -- Host-symbiont-pathogen-host interactions : Wolbachia, vector-transmitted human pathogens, and the importance of quantitative models of multipartite coevolution / Caetano Souto-Maior -- Evolution of the human microbiome and impacts on human health, infectious disease, and hominid evolution / Laura S. Weyrich -- Divergence-with-gene-flow : what humans and other mammals got up to / Michael L. Arnold, Amanda N. Brothers, Jennafer A.P. Hamlin, Sunni J. Taylor and Noland H. Martin -- A multiset model of multi-species evolution to solve big deceptive problems / Luís Correia and António Manso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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LCCN 2015939804
ISBN9783319163444 (hd.bd. : alk. paper)
ISBN3319163442 (hd.bd. : alk. paper)

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