(NAS Colloquium) Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms:

Towards a New Synthesis: 50 Years after Stebbins

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Front Matter	i-viii
Introduction: Variation and evolution in plants and microorganisms: Toward a new synthesis 50 years after Stebbins	6941-6944	(skim)
G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000): An appreciation	6945-6946	(skim)
Solution to Darwin's dilemma: Discovery of the missing Precambrian record of life	6947-6953	(skim)
The chimeric eukaryote: Origin of the nucleus from the karyomastigont in amitochondriate protists	6954-6959	(skim)
Dynamic evolution of plant mitochondrial genomes: Mobile genes and introns and highly variable mutation rates	6960-6966	(skim)
The evolution of RNA viruses: A population genetics view	6967-6973	(skim)
Effects of passage history and sampling bias on phylogenetic reconstruction of human influenza A evolution	6974-6980	(skim)
Bacteria are different: Observations, interpretations, speculations, and opinions about the mechanisms of adaptive evolution in prokaryotes	6981-6985	(skim)
Evolution of RNA editing in trypanosome mitochondria	6986-6993	(skim)
Population structure and recent evolution of Plasmodium flaciparum	6994-7001	(skim)
Transponsons and genome evolution in plants	7002-7007	(skim)
Maize as a model for the evolution of plant nuclear genomes	7008-7015	(skim)
Flower color variation: A model for the experimental study of evolution	7016-7023	(skim)
Gene genealogies and population variation in plants	7024-7029	(skim)
Toward a new synthesis: Major evolutionary trends in the angiosperm fossil record	7030-7036	(skim)
Reproductive systems and evolution in vascular plants	7037-7042	(skim)
Hybridization as a stimulus for the evolution of invasiveness of plants?	7043-7050	(skim)
The role of genetic and genomic attributes in the success of polyploids	7051-7060	(skim)

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