Microbial phylogeny and evolution concepts and controversies (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The bacterium's place in nature / Jan Sapp -- The large-scale structure of the Tree of Life / Norman R. Pace -- The molecular phylogeny of bacteria based on conserved genes / Wolfgang Ludwig and Karl-Hans Schleifer -- Evolving biological organization / Carl Woese -- If the Tree of Life fell would it make a sound? / W. Ford Doolittle -- Woe is the Tree of Life / William Martin -- The robustness of intermediary metabolism / Harold J. Morowitz, Daniel Broyles and Howard Lasus -- Molecular sequences and the early history of life / Radhey Gupta -- Fulfilling Darwin's dream / James Lake [and others] -- Paradigm lost / C.G. Kurland -- Contemporary issues in mitochondrial origins and evolution / Michael W. Gray -- On the origin and evolution of plastids / John M. Archibald and Patrick J. Keeling -- The karyomastigont model of eukaryosis / Hanna Melnitsky, Frederick A. Rainey and Lynn Margulis -- The missing piece: the microtubule cytoskeleton and the origin of eukaryotes / Michael F. Dolan -- Heritable microorganisms and reproductive parasitism / John H. Werren
The extent of lateral gene transfer among diverse microbes has effectively broken down the concept of species when we seek to apply it to the microbial world. This book brings together workers to try to reach an accomodation and consensus on the outline of how cellular life has evolved