Research Catalog

Title

Molecular evolution of physiological processes : Society of General Physiologists, 47h Annual Symposium / edited by Douglas M. Fambrough ; Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 8-11 September, 1993.

Author

Society of General Physiologists. Symposium (47th : 1993 : Woods Hole, Mass.)

Publication

New York : Rockefeller University Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors

Fambrough, Douglas M.

Description

x, 297 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Society of General Physiologists series ; v. 49

Uniform Title

Society of General Physiologists series ; v. 49.

Subjects

• Cell physiology > Congresses
• Molecular evolution > Congresses
• Life > Origin > Congresses
• Cell membranes > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

• Molecular Clocks Are Not as Bad as You Think / Walter M. Fitch and Francisco J. Ayala -- Reconstructing the History of Evolutionary Processes Using Maximum Likelihood / Michael J. Sanderson -- Introns, the Broken Transposons / Andrew J. Roger, Patrick J. Keeling and W. Ford Doolittle -- Monophyletic Origin of Animals: A Shared Ancestry with the Fungi / Patricia O. Wainright, David J. Patterson and Mitchell L. Sogin -- To Tree the Truth: Biological and Numerical Simulations of Phylogeny / David M. Hillis and John P. Huelsenbeck -- Transposable Elements and the Evolution of Heterochromatin / Allan Spradling -- Gene Conversion and the Evolution of Gene Families in Mammals / John C. Schimenti -- Functional Polymorphism in Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex Genes / Peter Parham -- The Generation of Protein Isoform Diversity by Alternative RNA Splicing / David M. Helfman -- Prolifins, Ancient Actin Binding Proteins with Highly Divergent Primary Structures / Thomas D. Pollard and Stephen Quirk.
• The Evolution of the Chicken Sarcomeric Myosin Heavy Chain Multigene Family / Everett Bandman, Laurie A. Moore, Maria Jesus Arrizubieta, William E. Tidyman, Lauri Herman and Macdonald Wick -- Molecular Evolution of the Myosin Superfamily: Application of Phylogenetic Techniques to Cell Biological Questions / Holly V. Goodson -- Diversity of Myosin-based Motility: Multiple Genes and Functions / Alison Weiss, D. C. Ghislaine Mayer and Leslie Leinwand -- The Actin Protein Superfamily / Christine Fyrberg, Liza Ryan, Lisa McNally, Maura Kenton and Eric Fyrberg -- Ion Channels of Microbes / Yoshiro Saimi, Boris Martinac, Robin R. Preston, Xin-Liang Zhou, Sergei Sukharev, Paul Blount and Ching Kung -- Using Sequence Homology to Analyze the Structure and Function of Voltage-gated Ion Channels / H. Robert Guy and Stewart R. Durell -- Molecular Evolution of K[superscript +] Channels in Primative Eukaryotes / Timothy Jegla and Lawrence Salkoff.
• The Connexins and Their Family Tree / Michael V. L. Bennett, Xin Zheng and Mitchell Sogin -- Relationships of G-Protein-coupled Receptors. A Survey with the Photoreceptor Opsin Subfamily / Meredithe L. Applebury -- Evolution of the G Protein Alpha Subunit Multigene Family / Thomas M. Wilke and Shozo Yokoyama -- Molecular Evolution of the Calcium-transporting ATPases Analyzed by the Maximum Parsimony Method / Yan Song and Douglas M. Fambrough.

ISBN

0874700558 (pbk.)

LCCN

94065642

OCLC

ocm30760207

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries