Evolutionary genetics of fungi.1904933157 Evolutionary genetics of fungi. Ed. by Jianping Xu. Horizon Bioscience 2005 350 pages $173.00 Hardcover QK602 Intending the volume for senior undergraduate students, graduate students, scientists, and professionals in agriculture, industry, medicine, and academia, Xu (McMaster U., Canada) presents 11 papers documenting recent advances in fungal evolutionary genetics. The contributions present results using traditional and novel biological tools to study fungal genetics in laboratory and natural settings. Topics include molecular systematics systematics: see classification. and speciation speciation Formation of new and distinct species, whereby a single evolutionary line splits into two or more genetically independent ones. One of the fundamental processes of evolution, speciation may occur in many ways. , ecological diversity and biogeography Biogeography A synthetic discipline that describes the distributions of living and fossil species of plants and animals across the Earth's surface as consequences of ecological and evolutionary processes. , evolution of fungal self and non-self recognitions systems, fundamentals of fungal molecular population genetics Population genetics The study of both experimental and theoretical consequences of mendelian heredity on the population level, in contradistinction to classical genetics which deals with the offspring of specified parents on the familial level. , molecular population genetics of various groups of fungi, the inheritance and evolution of fungal mitochondrial mitochondrial pertaining to mitochondria. mitochondrial RNAs a unique set of tRNAs, mRNAs, rRNAs, transcribed from mitochondrial DNA by a mitochondrial-specific RNA polymerase, that account for about 4% of the total cell RNA that genes and genomes, the evolution and molecular mechanisms of resistance to antifungal drugs, the rates and effects of spontaneous mutation affecting genotypic and phenotypic traits, and the evolution of a fungal laboratory model system. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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