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| - ''Edited books rarely work well, but this is a delightful exception...I wholeheartedly recommend this book.'' - Paul Rainey, Microbiology Today
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| Description | | - Comprehensive synthesis of eukaryotic diversity and genome evolution
- Integrates comparative genomic studies with eukaryotic microbiology
- BIOL08BIOS
- Provides insights that challenge traditional views of genome evolution
- A single resource for currently widely dispersed information in a rapidly emerging area of biology
| Genomics and Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbes synthesizes the rapidly emerging fields of eukaryotic diversity and genome evolution. Eukaryotes (cells with nuclei) evolved as microbes and have existed on Earth for approximately two billion years. The tremendous diversity of eukaryotic microbes (protists) is often overlooked by those who study the macroscopic eukaryotic lineages: plants,
animals, and fungi. Yet, eukaryotic microbes are of critical importance to ecosystems, human health, and our desire to understand biodiversity on Earth. By bringing together groundbreaking data from genome studies of diverse eukaryotic microbes, this book elucidates the many novelties among eukaryotic genomes and provides a single resource for otherwise widely dispersed information.
Eukaryotic microorganisms impact both our health and our environment. These organisms include some of the deadliest known pathogens such as Plasmodium falciparum, a causative agent of malaria, and Entamoeba histolytica an agent of dysentery. Eukaryotic microbes also play a significant role in environments through their involvement in global biogeochemical cycles. Such roles are
perhaps best exemplified by the coccolithophores, including the species Emiliania huxleyi, which can create 'blooms' in the oceans that are visible from outer space (i.e. as large as the state of Alaska). Despite the great importance and breadth of eukaryotic microbes (the vast majority of major ukaryotic lineages are microbial, with plants, animals and fungi representing just three of an
estimated 60-200 major lineages), our understanding of their diversity and phylogeny is only now rapidly expanding, in part bolstered by genomic studies.
This book presents analyses and interpretations from experts in the field. Recent advances, particularly in DNA sequencing technologies, have made eukaryotic microbes more accessible to genome analyses. Unravelling the wealth of information on
eukaryotic genomes will invariably revolutionize our understanding of eukaryotes, including their physiology, systematics, and ecology.
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Readership: An advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students and researchers, including genome scientists, evolutionary biologists, microbiologists and ecologists.
| Contents |
Introduction
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Katz & Bhattacharya
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Current perspectives on high-level groupings of protists
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Simpson & Patterson
2.
Comparative genomics of Plasmodium species
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Carlton
3.
The genomes of Dinoflagellates
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Hackett & Bhattacharya
4.
Ciliate genome evolution
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McGrath, Zufall, & Katz
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Molecular evolution of Foraminifera
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Bowser, Habura & Pawlowski
6.
Photosynthetic organelles and endosymbiosis
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Sommer, Gould, Kawach, Klemme, Voss, Maier & Zauner
7.
Genome evolution of anaerobic protists: metabolic adaptation via gene acquisition
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Andersson
8.
Horizontal and intracellular gene transfer in the Apicomplexa: The scope and functional consequences
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Huang & Kissinger
9.
The nuts and bolts of sequencing protist genomes
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Bartholomeu, Hall, & Carlton
10.
Comparative genomics of the trypanosomatids
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Stuart & Myler
11.
The genome of Entamoeba histolytica
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Clark
12.
Genome reduction in Microsporidia
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Keeling
13.
Nucleomorphs: remnant nuclear genomes
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Kawach, Sommer, Gould, Voss, Zauner & Maier
14.
Genomic insights into diatom evolution and metabolism
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Armbrust, Rynearson & Jenkins
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The Dictyostelium genome - a blueprint for a multicellular protist
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Schaap
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Laura A Katz, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College and
Debashish Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa
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