Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton Origins and Evolution.

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Σειρά: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 607
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Human genetics.; Cell biology.; Evolutionary biology.; Microbiology.; Life Sciences.; Eukaryotic Microbiology.; Cell Biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; Human Genetics.
• Φυσική περιγραφή: XV, 145 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780387740218
• ISSN: 0065-2598 ;

Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton: Origins and Evolution discusses the evolutionary origin and diversification of eukaryotic endomembranes and cytoskeleton from a cell biological and comparative genomic perspective. Many of the chapters present original research data from comparative genomic surveys. The presence/absence of gene families with central roles in endomembrane and cytoskeleton dynamics in a variety of eukaryotic taxa and an understanding of eukaryote phylogeny allow us to accurately reconstruct the cellular machineries present in the last common ancestor of eukaryotes. Such a reconstruction is fundamental if we are to understand eukaryotic diversification since this is the ancestral cell from which all diversity arose. Comparative genomics can likewise tell us which lineages expanded or reduced certain gene families and the associated cellular machineries.