The genetic code and the origin of life /

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Imprint:	Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com ; New York, N.Y. : Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, c2004.
Description:	1 online resource (253 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Series:	Molecular biology intelligence unit Molecular biology intelligence unit (Unnumbered)
Subject:	Evolutionary genetics. Genetic code. Genetic Code. Evolution, Molecular. Evolutionary genetics. Genetic code.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8876404

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Other authors / contributors:	Ribas de Pouplana, Lluís.
ISBN:	9780387268873 0387268871
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	Combines two complementary approaches to address the question of the development of the Genetic Code. This volume provides a general reference for the academic audience interested in evolution and, simultaneously, consolidates our detailed knowledge on the biological characteristics of the components of the genetic code.
Other form:	Print version: Genetic code and the origin of life. Georgetown, Tex. : Landes Bioscience/Eurekah.com ; New York, N.Y. : Kluwer Academic/ Plenum, c2004 0306478439 9780306478437

Table of Contents:

The early earth / Oliver Botta and Jeffrey L. Bada
Reconstructing the universal tree of life / James R. Brown
The nature of the last common ancestor / Luis Delaye, Arturo Becerra, and Antonio Lazcano
Ribozyme-catalyzed genetics / Donald H. Burke
The scope of selection / Michael Yarus and Rob Knight
The evolutionary history of the translation machinery / George E. Fox and Ashwinikumar K. Naik
Functional evolution of ribosomes / C. Briones and R. Amils
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases as clues to establishment of the genetic code / Lluis Ribas de Pouplana and Paul Schimmel
The relation between function, structure, and evolution of elongation factors Tu / Mathias Sprinzl
Origin and evolution of DNA and DNA replication machineries / Patrick Forterre, Jonathan Filíe, and Hannu Myllykallio
Early evolution of DNA repair mechanisms / Jocelyne DiRuggiero and Frank T. Robb
Extant variations in the genetic code / Manuel A.S. Santos and Mick F. Tuite
Adaptive evolution of the genetic code / Rob D. Knight, S.J. Freeland, and Laura F. Landweber
Expanding the genetic code in vitro and in vivo / Thomas J. Magliery and David R. Liu.

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