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Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: Toward a New Synthesis 50 Years after Stebbins (2000)
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Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms: TOWARD A NEW SYNTHESIS 50 YEARS AFTER STEBBINS

FIGURE 5. Birth and growth of Precambrian paleobiology.

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Front Matter (R1-R12)
Part I: Early Evolution and the Origin of Cells (1-2)
1 G. Ledyard Stebbins (1906-2000) -- An Appreciation (3-5)
2 Solution to Darwin's Dilemma: Discovery of the Missing Precambrian Record of Life (6-20)
3 The Chimeric Eukaryote: Origin of the Nucleus from the Karyomastigont in Amitochondriate Protists (21-34)
4 Dynamic Evolution of Plant Mitochondrial Genomes: Mobile Genes and Introns and Highly Variable Mutation Rates (35-58)
Part II: Viral and Bacterial Models (59-60)
5 The Evolution of RNA Viruses: A Population Genetics View (61-82)
6 Effects of Passage History and Sampling Bias on Phylogenetic Reconstruction of Human Influenza A Evolution (83-98)
7 Bacteria are Different: Observations, Interpretations, Speculations, and Opinions About the Mechanisms of Adaptive Evolution in Prokaryotes (99-114)
Part III: Protoctist Models (115-116)
8 Evolution of RNA Editing in Trypanosome Mitochondria (117-142)
9 Population Structure and Recent Evolution of Plasmodium falciparum (143-164)
Part IV: Population Variation (165-166)
10 Transposons and Genome Evolution in Plants (167-186)
11 Maize as a Model for the Evolution of Plant Nuclear Genomes (187-210)
12 Flower Color Variation: A Model for the Experimental Study of Evolution (211-234)
13 Gene Genealogies and Population Variation in Plants (235-252)
Part V: Trends and Patterns in Plant Evolution (253-254)
14 Toward a New Synthesis: Major Evolutionary Trends in the Angiosperm Fossil Record (255-270)
15 Reproductive Systems and Evolution in Vascular Plants (271-288)
16 Hybridization as a Stimulus for the Evolution of Invasiveness in Plants? (289-309)
17 The Role of Genetic and Genomic Attributes in the Success of Polyploids (310-330)
Index (331-340)