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From page 315...
... multi-task walks, 15~158 task demands in, 146-147 unimpeded walks in, 147-149 Adenosine triphosphatase, archaebacterial subunits, 13, 19 African replacement model, 203, 205 Amino acids covarion model of replacement, 23~236 in major histocompatibility complex, 189 replacement in RuBisCo protein, 223-227 replacement in SOD, 235 replacement patterns, 213, 230 in replication in RNA world, 1, 35, 36, 37 in SOD molecular clock, 244, 246247 See also Superoxide dismutase Amphibians, in Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction, 118-119 Amylase, in Drosophila pseudoobscura, 289, 290-291 Annelids late Precambrian form, 103
From page 316...
... See Framework PI map Q,l3, replication strategy, 2~29, 30, 33-34 Balanced selection, 196-197, 199 Bilaterians body plan evolution, 101 Vendian, 95, 97, 98-99 Biometrical science, iv Bipedalism, 173-175 Bottleneck effect, 188-189, 197-201, 206 in human evolution, 203, 204 Brachiopods, 98 Bradytelic evolution, 43 Simpson on, 53, 131-132 Brome mosaic virus, 29 Burgess Shale cnidarians in, 90 middle Cambrian diversity in, 91 C Cambrian Period, 85 acritarch evolution, 69-80 annelids, 97-98 boundaries of explosion, 88-89, 91 environmental factors in explosion, 102 gene expression in explosion, 103 metazoan body plans, 87, 93 metazoan diversity before explosion, 85, 99 metazoan faunas, 89-91 skeletal fossils, 9~91 Candelabra model, 202-203 Cauliflower mosaic virus, 33 CCA terminus, 3, 28, 31, 35-37 Cell-type number, 92-93 Cenancestor definition, 6 in eukaryote-prokaryote lineage, 10-11 genome structure, 18 Iwabe rooting, 13-15, 16-20 macromolecular synthesis in, 25-26 obstacles to understanding, 20-22 Cephalopods, body plan, 98 Chance events, 251, 267-268 Chloroplast amino acid replacement in, 223-227 codon use, 220, 229 complexity of genome evolution in, 229-231 eukaryote-prokaryote lineage, 7, 9, 21 in eukaryotic cell, 215 genome conservation, 216-217 genome structure, 213, 215, 216 genomic deletion events, 217-219 intron evolution, patterns of, 228229 mutation patterns, 217-220 noncoding DNA in, 217-220, 229 nucleotide substitution rate, 221-223 protein coding genes in, 22~223 pseudogenes, 217 research role, 230
From page 317...
... fossil morphology, 44, 47-50, 48, 57 paleoenvironment, 50-52 Precambrian evolution, 42, 57-58 Precambrian fossil record, 43, 44 16 ranges of growth/survivability, 53-56 reproduction, 53 specialization and survivability, 53, 56 tempo of evolution, 43~4 Cytoskeletal proteins, 16 D Darwin, Charles, iii-iv, 125 on extinction, 109-111, 117-118, 137 Lyell and, 126 uniformitarianism in thought of, 12~127, 137 Deuterostomes, 95, 96 Dinosaurs fossil record, 113 species susceptibility in extinction, 120 taxonomic selectivity in extinction of, 118 Diplomonads, 19 Discontinuous variation, iv Diversity peaks acritarch, 7~76, 77-79 Cambrian explosion, 85, 87-91, 93, 99, 102-103 Middle Cambrian body plans, 91 Proterozoic protistans, 77-78, 79, 80 DNA Drosophila, extraction and sequencing of, 289-290 Drosophila polymorphism, patterns of, 251, 283 in Drosophila polytene, 300
From page 318...
... cold experimental evolution, 268 in extinction, 119, 121, 122 in morphological research, 254-255 in prokaryotic evolution, 42 Eosynechococcus moored, 47 Epling, Carl, 252, 287-288 Eubacteria, 4, 11 archaebacteria linkage, 14, 20
From page 319...
... cold evolutionary trajectory, 26 264 measuring, in E coli, 255-256, 259260 modeling evolutionary morphology of vascular land plants, 149-154, 158-164 modeling of task demands for plants, 155-158 modeling requirements, 147-149 in morphological transformation, 146-147 obstacles to analysis, 145-146 phenotypic maxima vs.
From page 320...
... virilis in, 311 depth of coverage, 300 distribution of clones, 304-305 Drosophila library, 30~304 Drosophila strains, 300-301 dual hybridizations, 304 electronic mail access, 300 in evolution studies, 307-311, 312 insert sizes, 300 ligated DNA packaging, 301-302 PCR amplification of insert-vector junctions, 302-303 PCR screening, 303 plasmid DNA extraction, 302 results, 303-307, 311-312 STS markers, 299, 303, 306-307 X chromosome, 305 G Genetic information transfer allele selectivity, 195 archaebacterial, 14 in Cambrian explosion, 103 cellular evolution, 4, 9-10 chloroplast rpl23 pseudogene, 217219 chloroplast to eukaryotic nuclear genome, 215-216 coalescence theory, 196-197 human polymorphisms, population size in, 197-201 lateral events, 21 metazoan body plan evolution, 99~101 molecular clocks, 240-243 in multiregional model of human evolution, 205-206 in natural selection, 140-141 recombination-polymorphism correlation, 276-283 trans-specific polymorphisms, 191196 Genetic science comparative sequence analysis in, 230, 231 in evolutionary theory, iii-iv in phylogenetic reconstruction, 252 population processes in, 275-276 role of phylogeny research in, 216 in species research, 187-188 Genotype mapping, 145-146 phenotype linkage, 4, 6, 10 Geographic distribution cyanobacteria, 53, 56 extinction and, 119 in human origins, 202-207 Gloeothece coerulea, 47 Haloferax volcanii, 18 H Halophiles, 11 genome structure, 18 Hedgehog gene, 100-101
From page 321...
... cold evolution and, 270-271 hierarchical selection theory in, 137-142 mass extinction in, 137 punctuated equilibrium in, 136-137 Simpson and, 132-136 Macromolecules evolutionary pathways of synthesis, 25 social convolution, 27-28 Major histocompatibility complex action of, 189 allelic diversity, 189-191 allelic phylogeny, 196-197 DRB1 gene, 191-193, 196-197, 206 maintenance of polymorphisms, population size in, 197, 201, 20 207 role of, 189, 206 trans-specific polymorphisms, 191193 Mapping, genomic, 145-146 Drosophila, 252, 299, 300 framework map, definition of, 300 human, 299 hybridization technique in, 300 overlap detection in, 299, 300
From page 322...
... 322 1 Index role of, 299 yeast artificial chromosome map, 300 See also Framework PI map Mauriceville plasmid, 31-34 Messenger RNA, 1, 26 Metazoans body-plan complexity, 91-93 Cambrian faunas, 9~91 Cambrian/Precambrian body plans, 87 earliest fossils, 89-90 genetic regulation in body plan evolution, 99-102 fIox/HOM genes in, 10u late Precambrian body plans, 9~99 Precambrian diversity, 99 Precambrian phylogeny, 95, 102103 Methanogens, 11 Microsporidia, 19 Mitochondria eukaryote-prokaryote lineage, 7, 9, 21 human evolution, 203-204, 206 Mauriceville plasmid of Neurospora, 31-33 Mode of evolution corresponding tempos, 132 definition, 3 in molecular research, 3 paleontological research, 130-131 quantum, 134 Molecular fossils, 27, 43, 44 16 Mollusks, 98 extinction record, 119 N Natural selection. See Selection Neurospora, Mauriceville plasmid, 31-33 Noah's Ark model, 203 Nucleotide substitution in chloroplast genome, 221-223 as molecular clock, 242-243 recombination rate and, 278-279 o Operons, in archaebacterial/eubacterial lineage, 18-19 Oscillatoriaceans fossil-modern comparisons, 49-50, 52 ranges of growth/survivability, 53-55 Paleolyngbya, 47, 48 p Paleontology in evolut.l:ona^y science, 129-131, 142-143 phyletic data in, 133 professional status, 127-129 Pale op ro te ro zoic , 2 Paleozoic era, time scale, 64 Paralogy, 20-21 Phanerozoic eon evolution in, 41, 56-57, 58 rate of evolution, 52-53 worms, 99 Phenotype cell-type number in body plan complexity, 92-93 genotype mapping, 14~146 identifying trends in, 254 modeling fitness transformations, 147-149, 160 Photosynthesis, 216 endosymbiont hypothesis, 7 Phycodes pedum, 88 Phycomata, 67-68 Phylogeny algal eukaryotes, 78 alleles in reconstruction of, 191 amino acid replacement, 224, 226, 230 archaebacteria-eukaryote-prokaryote, 6-20 chloroplast genome, 229-230 Drosophila pseudoobscura ancestor gene, 288-297 eukaryote, 26
From page 323...
... Index 1 323 experimental reconstruction in bacteria, 255-256 genetics in reconstruction of, 252 hominid cladogram, 169-173 metazoan body plans, 93-99 Precambrian branching sequences, 93-95 precenancestral, reconstruction of, 2~22 prokaryote, 6-20 reconstruction process, 292 research role, 216 Simpson's emphasis on, 133-134 SOD amino acids, 237 tRNA evolution, 26, 34-38 Plants chloroplast genome, 213, 215, 216 intron evolution, 22~229 modeling evolutionary morphology of, 149-154, 158-164 modeling of task demands, 155-158 tracheophyte evolution, 149, 154, 16~162 Pleistocene epoch extinction in, 121 human population growth in, 198 Pleurocapsaceans, 51-52 Polymerase chain reaction, 302-303 Polymerases, domain structure, 3~34 Population size cyanobacteria, 53 in fixation of neutral allele, 195 in founder effect theory of speciation, 188 in human evolution, 197-201, 203207 in maintenance of polymorphism, 197 Postmodern thought, 135-136, 143 Precambrian era arthropod evolution, 95, 9~97 clade diversity, 69 cyanobacterial hypobradytely in, 47-53, 57-58 evolution in, 57-58 life of, 41~2 metazoan body plans, 9~99 molecular fossil record, 43, 44 16 phylogenetic models, 93-95 prokaryote evolution, 41~2 vascularized worms, 95-96, 98-99, 102-103 Vendian fauna, 89-90, 95-96, 97 Progenote, 1 as cenancestor, 10, 22 definition, 6 ribosomal structure, 9-10 templated protein synthesis in, 26 Prokaryotes distinguishing features, 6-7 eukaryotes vs., 6-7 evolutionary forces, 41~2 evolutionary model, 7-12 evolutionary pathway, 12-16 fossil record, 7 introns in, 11 Precambrian, 41~3 rate of evolution, 1-2 rRNA sequencing, 8-9, 11 Protein coding genes, 22~223 Proteobacteria, 9 Proterozoic eon acritarch evolution in, 73-80 clade diversity in, 69 eukaryotes in, 72 paleontological data base, 69-72 time scale, 6~66 Protistan Paleoproterozoic evolution, 2 Proterozoic diversity peaks, 77-78, 79, 80 Protostomes, phylogenetic lineage, 95, 96 Punctuated equilibrium, 136-137, 269 R rDNA, 9 Recombination rate, correlation with polymorphism, 27~283 Reef communities, 117 Replication earliest RNA genomes, 28-29
From page 324...
... cold experimental populations, 268-269 Simpson, George Gaylord, iii-iv, v-vi, 3, 41, 287-288 on bradytelic evolution, 53 contributions of, 129-132 evolutionary rate classification, 43 on extinction, 111-112 on human evolution, 167 macroevolutionary theory and, 132-136, 142-143 Skeletal fossils, 90-91 hominid evolution, 173-181 3' terminal sequence, 2~30 SOD. See Superoxide dismutase archaebacterialleukaryotic linkage, 20 Sonic hedgehog gene, 10~101 earliest genomic tags, 28-29 Specialization evolutionary role, 25-26 introns early hypothesis, 11 messenger, 1, 26 origins of, 26 See also Transfer RNA RNase P
From page 325...
... See Transfer RNA Tryptophan operans, 18 Turnip yellow mosaic virus, 29, 31, 33 U Ultraviolet light, 55 Uniformitarianism, 126-127, 137, 229 V Varanger ice age, acritarch evolution across, 72, 73, 74, 75-76 Vendian fauna, 89-90, 95-96, 101 segmented bilaterians, 97, 98-99 Viruses genomic diversity, 30-31 replication strategies, 31-34 W Worms late Precambrian, 95-96, 98-99 in metazoan evolutionary phylogeny, 102


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