Reticulate Evolution Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gontier, Nathalie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, 3
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medical genetics.; Biology > Philosophy.; Biodiversity.; Evolutionary biology.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Gene Function.; Philosophy of Biology.

Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical contexts. The contributing au...

Table of Contents:

• Reticulate Evolution Everywhere
• Can We Understand Evolution Without Symbiogenesis?
• Symbiosis: Evolution’s Co-Author
• Novel Endosymbioses as a Catalyst of Fast Speciation
• Historical and Epistemological Perspectives on What Lateral Gene Transfer Mechanisms Contribute to Our Understanding of Evolution
• Plasmids: Histories of a Concept
• Symbiosis Between Non-Transferable Plasmids and Prokaryote Cells
• Host-Symbiont-Pathogen-Host Interactions: Wolbachia, Vector-Transmitted Human Pathogens and the Importance of Quantitative Models of Multipartite Coevolution
• Evolution of The Human Microbiome and Impacts on Human Health, Infectious Disease and Hominid Evolution
• Divergence-With-Gene-Flow: What Humans and Other Mammals Got Up To
• A Multiset Model of Multi-Species Evolution to Solve Big Deceptive Problems.