Molecular Evolution of Life
Published on 18. December 1986
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-521-33642-0 (ISBN)
Description
In the last few years, our understanding of fundamental molecular aspects of the prebiological and biological evolution of life has advanced through the use of modern biochemical and biophysical techniques of measurement. In particular, we now have improved knowledge of the structure and functions of nucleic acids and proteins, and of the relation of functional forms to structural patterns. This book, which is based on papers presented at a meeting arranged by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, is an interdisciplinary account of the field. Contributions from biochemists, biophysicists, geneticists, molecular biologists and medical workers are integrated under the headings of Prebiotic Systems and Evolutionary Pathways, Nucleic Acids and Informational Systems, Proteins and Enzymatic Functions, and Complex Systems and Organization. The volume will be valuable to workers in all these fields.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1398 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-33642-0 (9780521336420)
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Content
Preface; 1. Prebiotic systems and evolutionary pathways Stanley L. Miller, Manfred Eigen, Peter Schuster, Susumu Ohno, Marty Jabara, Christof K. Biebricher, Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch, Andreas Dress and Lloyd Demetrius; 2. Nucleic acids and informational systems John C. W. Shepard, Ulf Lagerkvist, Glenn R. Bjoerk, Okle C. Uhlenbeck, R. Rigler, F. Claesens, L. Nilsson, A. Liljas, S. Thirup, A. T. Matheson, J. A. Lake, E. Henderson, M. W. Clark, A. Scheinman, M. I. Oakes, John N. Abelson, Edward N. Brody, Soo-Chen Cheng, Michael W. Clark. Phillip R. Green, Gloria Dalbadie-McFarland, Ren-Jang Lin, Andrew J. Newman, Eric M. Phizicky, Usha Vijayraghavan, Richard E. Dickerson, Mary L. Kopka, Phillip Pjura, John M. Rosenberg, Judith A. McClarin, Christin A. Frederick, Bi-Cheng Wang, Herbert W. Boyer, Patricia Greene, L. Wieslander, C. Hoeoeg, U. Lendahl, B. Daneholt, K. Hammarstroem, C. Bark, G. Westin, J. Zabielski, and U. Pettersson; 3. Proteins and enzymatic functions Shosaka Numa, J. R. Tata, Viktor Mutt, Sture Falkmer, Eva Dafgaed, Wilhelm Engstroem, Tom Blundell, Hans Neurath, Hans Joernvall, Richard M. Lawn, Earl W. Davie, Carl-Ivar Braenden, R. G. Brennan, L. H. Weaver, B. W. Matthews, Robert Huber, H. Baltscheffsky, M. Lundin, C. Luxemburg, P. Nyren, M. Baltscheffsky, J. E. Walker, A. L. Cozens, L. Ernster, T. Hundal, B. Norling, G. Sandri, L. Wojtczak, V. A. Grinkevich, N. N. Modyanov, Yu. A. Ovchinnikov, Bengt Mannervik and Bo G. Malmstroem; 4. Complex systems and organization Robert C. Gallo, A. M. Colberg-Poley, S. D. Voss, P. Gruss, Robert T. Schimke, Steven W. Sherwood, Anna B. Hill, Frederik Lindberg, Susanne Lindquist, Staffan Normark, Michael G. Rossmann, Edward Arnold, John W. Erickson, Elizabeth A. Frankenberger, James P. Griffith, Hans-Juergen Hecht, John E. Johnson, Greg Kamer, Ming Luo, Gerrit Vriend, Anne G. Mosser, Ann C. Palmenberg, Roland R. Rueckert, Barbara Sherry, Goeran Wadell, Annica Allard, Magnus Exander, Li Quan-gen, Patricia H. Clarke, Susumu Tonegawa, Haruo Saito, Hans Wigzell, Alexander von Gabain, Monica Ohlsson, Eleonor Lindstroem, Erik Lundgren and Gerald M. Edelman.