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Origins of sex : three billion years of genetic recombination /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1986]
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| Colección: | Bio-origins series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: For whom this book is meant
- What is life? DNA, autopoiesis, and the reproductive imperative
- What is evolution? Cell DNA continuity and the necessity of error
- What is sex? Molecular, cellular, and organismal recombinations and fusions
- Threats to DNA and the emergence of sexuality: ultraviolet light, chemical death, and DNA repair
- Recombination and bacterial mating: worldwide evolutionary changes through microbial sex
- The emergence of protists: symbiotic bacteria and organellar sex
- The origin of chromosomes: packing of chromatin
- Chromosome deployment in mitosis: microtubules and their organizing centers
- Cannibalism and other mergers: protistan dilemma of doubleness
- Pairing and halving: fertilization and meiosis
- Meiosis and cell differentiation: from microbial community ecology to endocytobiology
- Big eggs and small sperm: origin of anisogamy and gender
- Three billion years of sex: common evolutionary legacy and strange variations
- Glossary.