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Gáspár Jékely
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany

About this book

This book discusses the evolutionary origin and diversification of eukaryotic endomembranes and cytoskeleton from a cell biological and comparative genomic perspective. The premise of this book is that convincing experimental cell biologists to speculate about the evolutionary origin of the cell biological processes they are working on, the scientific community will gain fresh insight into the problem of eukaryote origins from scientists who possess intimate knowledge of how eukaryotic cells function. Thankfully, many cell biologists have accepted the challenge and provided in-depth cell evolutionary analyses, or have teamed up with bioinformaticians in order to carry out comparative genomic surveys. Their contributions, together with the contributions of paleontologists and evolutionary biologists, have provided a diversity of viewpoints and a fresh perspective on many aspects of eukaryote evolution.

Table of contents

1. The Early Eukaryotic Fossil Record
Emmanuelle J. Javaux

2. The Diversity of Eukaryotes and the Root of the Eukaryotic Tree
Henner Brinkmann and Hervé Philippe

3. Origin of Eukaryotic Endomembranes: A Critical Evaluation
of Different Model Scenarios
Gáspár Jékely

4. Origins and Evolution of Cotranslational Transport to the ER
Thomas U. Schwartz

5. Evolution of the Endoplasmic Reticulum and the Golgi Complex
Alexander A. Mironov, Victor V. Banin, Irina S. Sesorova,
Viacheslav V. Dolgikh, Alberto Luini and Galina V. Beznoussenko

6. An Evolutionary Perspective on Eukaryotic Membrane Trafficking
Cemal Gurkan, Atanas V. Koulov and William E. Balch

7. Reconstructing the Evolution of the Endocytic System: Insights from Genomics
and Molecular Cell Biology
Mark C. Field, Carme Gabernet-Castello and Joel B. Dacks

8. Origins and Evolution of the Actin Cytoskeleton
Francisco Rivero and Fatima Cvr ková

9. Origin and Evolution of Self-Consumption: Autophagy
Timothy Hughes and Tor Erik Rusten

10. Origin and Evolution of the Centrosome
Michel Bornens and Juliette Azimzadeh

11. The Evolution of Eukaryotic Cilia and Flagella as Motile
and Sensory Organelles
David R. Mitchell