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 Info | Cham : Springer ; Lisbon : AppEEL, Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, [2015] |
| Description | xii, 337 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Series | Interdisciplinary 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 note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015939804 |
| ISBN | 9783319163444 (hd.bd. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 3319163442 (hd.bd. : alk. paper) |
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