Genomics and Evolution of Microbial Eukaryotes
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 7 September 2006
- ISBN 9780198569749
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 254x194x18 mm
- Weight 745 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 halftones, 35 line drawings 0
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Short description:
This book represents a unique combination of recently-emerged information on eukaryotic microbes, evolution and genomics. Eukaryotes, cells with nuclei, evolved as microbes and have existed on Earth for approximately 2 billion years. Although currently relatively understudied, eukaryotic microorganisms are of critical importance to ecosystems (through their involvement in global biogeochemical cycles), human health (they include some of the deadliest pathogens), and
our desire to understand global biodiversity. Recent advances, particularly in DNA sequencing technologies, are making eukaryotic microbes more accessible through genome analyses. Insights from these studies are challenging previously held theories of genome evolution, based on studies of a limited
number of plants, animals and fungi.
Long description:
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.
'Edited books rarely work well, but this is a delightful exception...I wholeheartedly recommend this book.'
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Current perspectives on high-level groupings of protists
Comparative genomics of Plasmodium species
The genomes of Dinoflagellates
Ciliate genome evolution
Molecular evolution of Foraminifera
Photosynthetic organelles and endosymbiosis
Genome evolution of anaerobic protists: metabolic adaptation via gene acquisition
Horizontal and intracellular gene transfer in the Apicomplexa: The scope and functional consequences
The nuts and bolts of sequencing protist genomes
Comparative genomics of the trypanosomatids
The genome of Entamoeba histolytica
Genome reduction in Microsporidia
Nucleomorphs: remnant nuclear genomes
Genomic insights into diatom evolution and metabolism
The Dictyostelium genome - a blueprint for a multicellular protist
