Molecular Phylogeny of Microorganisms

Molecular and other biologists ponder the evolution of microorganisms in light of cheap gene sequencing and the acceptance of lateral gene transfer as a relevant source of genetic variation. They discuss a historical overview of concepts about phylogeny of microorganisms, multi-locus sequence analysis and bacterial species phylogeny estimation, the phyla of cultured and uncultured prokaryotes, applications of conserved indels for understanding microbial phylogeny, horizontal gene transfer and the formation of groups of microorganisms, endosymbiosis and the evolution of plastids, and other topics. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)