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Reticulate Evolution - Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Reticulate Evolution - Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer, Hybridization and Infectious Heredity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, 3
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Written for non-experts, this volume introduces the mechanisms that
underlie reticulate evolution. Chapters are either accompanied with
glossaries that explain new terminology or timelines that position
pioneering scholars and their major discoveries in their historical
contexts. The contributing authors outline the history and original
context of discovery of symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene
transfer, hybridization or divergence with gene flow and infectious
heredity. By applying key insights from the areas of molecular
(phylo)genetics, microbiology, virology, ecology, systematics,
immunology, epidemiology and computational science, they
demonstrate how reticulate evolution impacts successful survival,
fitness and speciation. Reticulate evolution brings forth a
challenge to the standard Neo-Darwinian framework, which defines
life as the outcome of bifurcation and ramification patterns
brought forth by the vertical mechanism of natural selection.
Reticulate evolution puts forward a pattern in the tree of life
that is characterized by horizontal mergings and lineage crossings
induced by symbiosis, symbiogenesis, lateral gene transfer,
hybridization or divergence with gene flow and infective heredity,
making the "tree of life" look more like a "web of life." On an
epistemological level, the various means by which hereditary
material can be transferred horizontally challenges our classic
notions of units and levels of evolution, fitness, modes of
transmission, linearity, communities and biological individuality.
The case studies presented examine topics including the origin of
the eukaryotic cell and its organelles through symbiogenesis; the
origin of algae through primary and secondary symbiosis and
dinoflagellates through tertiary symbiosis; the superorganism and
holobiont as units of evolution; how endosymbiosis induces
speciation in multicellular life forms; transferrable and
non-transferrable plasmids and how they symbiotically interact with
their host; the means by which pro- and eukaryotic organisms
transfer genes laterally (bacterial transformation, transduction
and conjugation as well as transposons and other mobile genetic
elements); hybridization and divergence with gene flow in
sexually-reproducing individuals; current (human) microbiome and
viriome studies that impact our knowledge concerning the evolution
of organismal health and acquired immunity; and how symbiosis and
symbiogenesis can be modelled in computational evolution.
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