The Tree of Life
(Sprache: Englisch)
<em>The Tree of Life </em>presents the ultimate phylogenetic tree; featuring 44 chapters each authored by experts in their field, it provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of evolutionary relationships for the main groups of living organism.
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<em>The Tree of Life </em>presents the ultimate phylogenetic tree; featuring 44 chapters each authored by experts in their field, it provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of evolutionary relationships for the main groups of living organism.
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Presentation.- Preface, Francisco Ayala.- Prologue, Michael J. Donoghue.- Introduction.- 1. Systematics: Charting the Tree of Life; Fredrik Ronquist.- 2. Great Domains: Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya; David Moreira.- 3. Archaea and Bacteria: The Prokaryotic Cell Organization; Ramón Rosselló and Josefa Antón.- 4. The Domain Eucarya: The Rise of Organisms with Nucleated Cells; Guifré Torruella, David Moreira, and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.- 5. The Former 'Protists': Amoebozoa, Rhizaria, Excavata, Haptophyta, Cryptophyta, Heterokonta, and Alveolata; Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, David Moreira, and Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo.- 6. Plants: Origin of Glaucophytes and Rhodophytes, before Land Plant Diversification; Adrian Reyes-Prieto.- 7. Chlorobionts: Ancestors of Land Plants; Francisco F. Pedroche.- 8. Embryophytes: Early Land Plants; Josep A. Rosselló.- 9. Tracheophytes: Land Conquest by Vascular Plants; Virginia Valcárcel and Pablo Vargas.- 10. Ferns: Vascular Plants that Reproduce by Spores; Santiago Pajarón and Emilia Pangua.- 11. Conifers: The Most Diverse Group of Seed Plants; David S. Gernandt and Alejandra Vázquez Lobo.- 12. Angiosperms: Plants with Flowers that Produce Fruits; Pablo Vargas.- 13. Monocotelydons: Great Diversity of an Ancient Angiosperm Lineage; Modesto Luceño and Santiago Martín-Bravo.- 14. Eudicotyledons: The Greatest Flower Diversity in Angiosperms; Susana Magallón and Pablo Vargas.- 15. Fungi: Hyperdiversity Closer to Animals than to Plants; Ana Crespo, Pradeep K. Divakar, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch.- 16. Metazoans: The Rise of Early Animals; Manuel Maldonado.- 17. Eumetazoans: The Rise of Tissue and Guts; André C. Morandini and Mónica Medina.- 18. Bilaterians: The Evolutionary Advantage of Being Two-sided; Marta Riutort, Jordi Paps, and Iñaki Rúiz-Trillo.- 19. Protostomes: The Greatest Animal Diversity; Gonzalo Giribet.- 20. Spiralians: Animals with Spiral Cleavage and Their Relatives; Gonzalo Giribet.- 21. Molluscs: Diversity of Shells and Soft Bodies; Cristina
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Grande and Rafa Zardoya.- 22. Annelids: Segmented Worms; M. Teresa Aguado, María Capa, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa, and Greg W. Rouse.- 23. Platyhelminthes: Are Flatworms Simple or Simplified?; Marta Riutort.- 24. Ecdysozoans: The Molting Animals; Noemí Guil and Gonzalo Giribet.- 25. Nematodes: The Ubiquitous Roundworms; Alfonso Navas.- 26. Panarthropods: Arthropods and Their Closest Relatives; Gustavo Hormiga and Jesús Ballesteros Chávez.- 27. Chelicerates: The Eight-Legged Colonization of Land; Miquel Arnedo and Carles Ribera.- 28. Mandibulates: Arthropods with Mandibles; Marcos Pérez-Losada.- 29. Hexapods: Insects and Closely Related Groups; Ignacio Ribera.- 30. Odonates: Dragonflies and Damselflies; Adolfo Cordero. 31. Orthopterans: Grasshoppers and Katydids, the First Singers on Earth; Mario García-París.- 32. Hemipterans: The Largest Hemimetabolous Insect Order; Dora Aguin Pombo and Thierry Bourgoin.- 33. Coleopterans: Beetles; Ignacio Ribera and Rolf G. Beutel.- 34. Hymenopterans: Ants, Bees, Wasps, and the Majority of Insect Parasitoids; Jose L. Nieves Aldrey and Mike Sharkey.- 35. Dipterans: Two-winged Flies; David Yeates and Dalton de Souza Amorim.- 36. Lepidopterans: Butterflies and Moths; Roger Vila.- 37. Deuterostomes: The Ancestry of Vertebrates; José Castresana.- 38. Echinoderms: Reinventing Radial Symmetry; Samuel Zamora, Patricio Domínguez and Pablo Vargas.- 39. Chordates: The Acquisition of an Axial Backbone; Stéphanie Bertrand and Héctor Escrivá.- 40. Actinopterygians: The Extraordinary Diversity of Ray-Finned Fishes; Ignacio Doadrio and Omar Domínguez-Domínguez.- 41. Sarcopterygians: The Rise of Land Vertebrates; Rafael Zardoya.- 42. Amphibians: Land Conquest by Vertebrates; Diego San Mauro.- 43. Mammals: Prolific Speciation after Dinosaurs' Demise; Pablo Vargas.- 44. Sauropsids: Reptilian Relationships, including Aves; Salvador Carranza.- 45. Aves: Birds, the Living Descendants of Flying Dinosaurs; Per G. P. Ericson.- 46. Speciation; Antonio Fontdevila.- 47. Biogeography; Isabel Sanmartín.- 48. Evolution on Islands; Pablo Vargas.- 49. Evolutionary Ecology; Patrick S. Fitze.- 50. Evolution of Behavior; Patrick S. Fitze.- 51. Phylogenies and the Evolution of Development; Ehab Abouheif.- 52. Symbiosis; Andrés Moya and Amparo Latorre.- 53. Phylogenetic Techniques and Markers; Pilar Catalán and Fernando González-Candelas.- 54. Reconstruction of Phylogenetic Trees; David Posada.- 55. Analysis of Genetic Variation and Intraspecific Phylogenies; Julio Rozas and Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia.
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Edited By Pablo Vargas and Rafael Zardoya
Bibliographische Angaben
- 740 Seiten, Maße: 22,4 x 28,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Pablo Vargas, Rafael Zardoya
- Verlag: Sinauer Associates
- ISBN-10: 1605352292
- ISBN-13: 9781605352299
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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