Editors:
- 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)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
Gáspár Jékely
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Eukaryotic Membranes and Cytoskeleton
Book Subtitle: Origins and Evolution
Editors: Gáspár Jékely
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74021-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-74020-1Published: 14 September 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2541-1Published: 27 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-74021-8Published: 08 September 2008
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 145
Topics: Eukaryotic Microbiology, Cell Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Human Genetics