Molecular evolution
Welcome to the Wikiversity Molecular Evolution Project.
Content summary
Participants in this project explore the molecular evolution of DNA, RNA and proteins.
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- Molecular evolution/Intermediate filament proteins - explore the evolution of this family of cytoskeletal proteins
- The concept of irreducible complexity - are there some features of living organisms that cannot be accounted for by conventional evolutionary mechanisms?
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Texts
- Sequence - Evolution - Function; subtitle: "Computational Approaches in Comparative Genomics" by Eugene V. Koonin and Michael Y. Galperin (2002) ISBN 1-4020-7274-0
- How Genomes Evolve, Chapter 15 in Genomes, Third Edition by T. A. Brown, May 2006.
- "Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses" by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in Biology Direct (2006) 1: 19.
- Origins and Evolution of the Actin Cytoskeleton by Francisco Rivero and Fatima Cvrcková.
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Activities
- Select a protein of interest and explore which living organisms have a gene for that type of protein.
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Readings
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References
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Active participants
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- User:JWSchmidt...
- AFriedman
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