附註:"This book contains updated chapters written by selected speakers at an international workshop entitled "Thermophiles: the Keys to Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life?" held at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA in September 1966"--Preface
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The early earth -- pt. 2. The origin of life -- pt. 3. Nucleic acid-based phylogenies -- pt. 4. Gene exchange and evolution -- pt. 5. Enzyme-based phylogenies -- pt. 6. Enzyme evolution -- pt. 7. Membrane evolution -- pt. 8. Life at high temperature.
摘要:Late-1990s developments in the study of thermophiles have had considerable significance on theories of evolution. Scientists have begun to study their biology in an attempt to provide clues about the beginnings of life on our planet.