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Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton

Origins and Evolution

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Gáspár Jékely

    1. European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Diversity of viewpoints on many aspects of eukaryote evolution
  • Examines the problems along some transects of eukaryote cell biology

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 607)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. The Early Eukaryotic Fossil Record

    • Emmanuelle J. Javaux
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Diversity Of Eukaryotes And The Root Of The Eukaryotic Tree

    • Henner Brinkmann, Hervé Philippe
    Pages 20-37

  4. Origin of Eukaryotic Endomembranes: A Critical Evaluation of Different Model Scenarios

    • Gáspár Jékely
    Pages 38-51

  5. Origins and Evolution of Cotranslational Transport to the ER

    • Thomas U. Schwartz
    Pages 52-60

  6. Evolution of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Golgi Complex

    • Alexander A. Mironov, Victor V. Banin, Irina S. Sesorova, Viacheslav V. Dolgikh, Alberto Luini, Galina V. Beznoussenko
    Pages 61-72

  7. An Evolutionary Perspective on Eukaryotic Membrane Trafficking

    • Cemal Gurkan, Atanas V. Koulov, William E. Balch
    Pages 73-83

  8. Reconstructing the Evolution of the Endocytic System: Insights from Genomics and Molecular Cell Biology

    • Mark C. Field, Carme Gabernet-Castello, Joel B. Dacks
    Pages 84-96

  9. Origins and Evolution of the Actin Cytoskeleton

    • Francisco Rivero, Fatima Cvrčková
    Pages 97-110

  10. Origin and Evolution of Self-Consumption: Autophagy

    • Timothy Hughes, Tor Erik Rusten
    Pages 111-118

  11. Origin and Evolution of the Centrosome

    • Michel Bornens, Juliette Azimzadeh
    Pages 119-129

  12. The Evolution of Eukaryotic Cilia and Flagella as Motile and Sensory Organelles

    • David R. Mitchell
    Pages 130-140

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 141-145
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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.

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  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

    Gáspár Jékely

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