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Evolution in a Toxic World : How Life Responds to Chemical Threats.

With BPA in baby bottles, mercury in fish, and lead in computer monitors, the world has become a toxic place. But as Emily Monosson demonstrates in her groundbreaking new book, it has always been toxic. When oxygen first developed in Earth's atmosphere, it threatened the very existence of life:...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monosson, Emily
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Evolution in a ToxicWorld; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: An Introduction; Nature's Toxicants; Evolutionary History of Toxicology; Toxic Evolution in Action; Moving Forward by Looking Back; PART 1: Element; Chapter 2: Shining a Light on Earth's Oldest Toxic Threat?; The First Threat?; Genealogy of Protection; Everything under the Sun; A Plague on Frogs; Cosmic Irony; Chapter 3: When Life Gives You Oxygen, Respire; Oxygen Basics; Evolution of Oxygen; Synergy; Catalase, a Saving Grace?; In Defense of Oxygen; Marathon Man; Chapter 4: Metal Planet; The Metals Exchange. 
505 8 |a Bare Necessities: Essential Minerals and ElementsBalance; Contemporary Evolution in a MetalWorld; PART 2: Plant and Animal; Chapter 5: It Takes Two (orMore) for theCancer Tango; A Complex Cell; Life beyond the Singles Bar; Indivisible, with Cancer for All; p53: A Family History of Death and Destruction; Avoiding a Death Sentence: When Cancer Strikes; Chapter 6: ChemicalWarfare; The Combatants: Plants and Animals; Offensive Plants; The CYP Defense: Animals Fight Back; Dining with Impunity? Furanocoumarins and CYPs; Chapter 7: Sensing Chemicals; Beyond Locks and Keys: Receptors and Ligands. 
505 8 |a Turning on DNA: Nuclear ReceptorsLet's Talk about Sex; An Inexplicable Affinity; Chapter 8: Coordinated Defense; The Environmental Net; The Defensome; Defense Networks across the Ages; Hormesis; Attractor States: Preparation for a Rare Event?; Natural Defense; PART 3: Human; Chapter 9: Toxic Evolution; Evolving Ideas; Plasticity or Natural Selection?; Nothing in Life Is Free; Chapter 10: Toxic Overload?; (R)evolution at Both Ends of the Spectrum; A Conclusion Evolves?; Notes; Appendix; Selected bibliography; Index. 
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