Archaea; evolution, physiology, and molecular biology.9781405144049 Archaea archaea: see Archaebacteria. archaea A group of prokaryotes whose members differ from bacteria, the most prominent prokaryotes, in certain physical, physiological, and genetic features. The archaea may be aquatic or terrestrial microorganisms. ; evolution, physiology, and molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller . Ed. by Roger Garrett and Hans-Peter Klenk. Blackwell Publishing 2007 388 pages $149.95 Hardcover QR82 Garrett (Danish Archaea Center, Copenhagen U., Denmark) and Klenk (microbial microbial pertaining to or emanating from a microbe. microbial digestion the breakdown of organic material, especially feedstuffs, by microbial organisms. genomics, Darmstadt Technical U., Germany) present 26 papers for the purpose of sampling recent research into the single-celled organisms of the Archaea domain (one of the fundamental classifications, together with Eukaryota and Bacteria, of the relatively recent three-domain system The three-domain system is a biological classification introduced by Carl Woese in 1990[1] that emphasizes his separation of prokaryotes into two groups, originally called Eubacteria and Archaebacteria. of taxonomy). Eleven of the papers are literature reviews on such topics as the natural history of the archaeal domain, features of the genomes, genetics, chromatin chromatin: see chromosome. and regulation, DNA replication and the cell cycle, DNA repair, transcriptional mechanism, and biotechnology. A further 14 papers are specialist articles discussing lateral gene transfer and the nature of the domains, nanoarchaeota, mechanisms of rearrangement and change in Sulfolobus genomes, plasmids, possible role of integration mechanisms in genome evolution, genetic properties of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius and relate Archaea, transcriptional regulation in Haloarchaea, translational mechanisms and protein synthesis, glycolytic pathways of Archaea, metabolism of inorganic sulfur compounds in Archaea, methylation methylation, n a phase-II detoxification pathway in the liver; methyl groups combine with toxins to rid the body of various substances. methylation (meth´ of metalloids by methanoarchaea, and other topics. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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