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Author:   Laura A Katz (Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Smith College, Northampton MA, 01060, USA) ,  Debashish Bhattacharya (Associate Professor, University of Iowa, Department of Biological Sciences, 446 Biology Building, Iowa City, IA 52242)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.745kg
ISBN:  

9780198569749

ISBN 10:   0198569742
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 September 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Katz & Bhattacharya: Introduction 1: Simpson & Patterson: Current perspectives on high-level groupings of protists 2: Carlton: Comparative genomics of Plasmodium species 3: Hackett & Bhattacharya: The genomes of Dinoflagellates 4: McGrath, Zufall, & Katz: Ciliate genome evolution 5: Bowser, Habura & Pawlowski: Molecular evolution of Foraminifera 6: Sommer, Gould, Kawach, Klemme, Voß, Maier & Zauner: Photosynthetic organelles and endosymbiosis 7: Andersson: Genome evolution of anaerobic protists: metabolic adaptation via gene acquisition 8: Huang & Kissinger: Horizontal and intracellular gene transfer in the Apicomplexa: The scope and functional consequences 9: Bartholomeu, Hall, & Carlton: The nuts and bolts of sequencing protist genomes 10: Stuart & Myler: Comparative genomics of the trypanosomatids 11: Clark: The genome of Entamoeba histolytica 12: Keeling: Genome reduction in Microsporidia 13: Kawach, Sommer, Gould, Voß, Zauner & Maier: Nucleomorphs: remnant nuclear genomes 14: Armbrust, Rynearson & Jenkins: Genomic insights into diatom evolution and metabolism 15: Schaap: The Dictyostelium genome - a blueprint for a multicellular protist

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'Edited books rarely work well, but this is a delightful exception...I wholeheartedly recommend this book.' * Paul Rainey, Microbiology Today *

'Edited books rarely work well, but this is a delightful exception...I wholeheartedly recommend this book.' Paul Rainey, Microbiology Today

Katz and Bhattacharya have assembled a set of 15 articles by leading researchers. Their goal was to 'convey a basic understanding' (p 1) of this broad topic to a wide scientific audience, and in this they have succeeded. --IThe Quarterly Review of Biology<br>

<br> Katz and Bhattacharya have assembled a set of 15 articles by leading researchers. Their goal was to 'convey a basic understanding' (p 1) of this broad topic to a wide scientific audience, and in this they have succeeded. --IThe Quarterly Review of Biology<p><br>

Author Information

Laura A Katz is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the Smith College, Northampton Debashish Bhattacharya is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Iowa

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