Endosymbiotic Theories of Organelles Revisited Retrospects and Prospects /

• Main Author: Sato, Naoki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Evolutionary biology.; Biology-History.; Plant science.; Botany.; Biology-Philosophy.; Molecular ecology.; Cell biology.; Evolutionary Biology.; History of Biology.; Plant Sciences.; Philosophy of Biology.; Molecular Ecology.; Cell Biology.

This book re-examines the endosymbiotic theory, and presents various related theories and hypotheses since the first proposal in 1905 by a Russian biologist. It also demonstrates that Lynn Margulis's contribution to the current endosymbiotic is less than sometimes thought, and presents a plausi...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Part I History of endosymbiotic discourses
• Chapter 2. Mereschkowsky, founder of endosymbiotic hypothesis
• Chapter 3. Endosymbiotic discourses until the mid 20th century
• Chapter 4. Re-evaluation of the initial ideas of Lynn Margulis
• Chapter 5. Endosymbiotic discourses in the 1960s and 1970s
• Part II Current perspectives
• Chapter 6. Phylogenetic evidence for the endosymbiotic origin of organelles
• Chapter 7. Continuity and discontinuity of chloroplasts and cyanobacteria
• Chapter 8. Re-examination of the "endosymbiotic event"
• Chapter 9 Concluding remarks. .