- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
I History -
II The Modern Synthesis -
III Biology -
15 Introduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Biology -
16 Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea -
17 Behavior, Stress, and Evolution in Light of the Novosibirsk Selection Experiments -
18 The Role of Cellular Plasticity in the Evolution of Regulatory Novelty -
19 Evolutionary Implications of Individual Plasticity -
20 Epigenetic Variability in a Predator-Prey System -
21 Cellular Epigenetic Inheritance in the Twenty-First Century -
22 An Evolutionary Role for RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Variation? -
23 Maternal and Transgenerational Influences on Human Health -
24 Plants: Individuals or Epigenetic Cell Populations? -
25 Instantaneous Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in the Wheat Genome Caused by Allopolyploidization -
26 Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World -
27 Symbionts as an Epigenetic Source of Heritable Variation -
IV Philosophy -
V Ramifications and Future Directions -
Appendix A: Mandelstam’s Poem “Lamarck” -
Appendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity - Further Reading
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World
Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World
- Chapter:
- (p.271) 26 Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World
- Source:
- Transformations of Lamarckism
- Author(s):
Jan Sapp
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter considers the horizontal gene transfer among bacteria as an important aspect of evolution. It suggests that genomic acquisitions through horizontal gene transfers is pervasive in the microbial world and that hereditary symbiosis is a fundamental mode of evolutionary change in all kingdoms of life.
Keywords: horizontal gene transfer, bacteria, evolution, genomic acquisitions, hereditary symbiosis, symbiosis, evolutionary change
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- Title Pages
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
I History -
II The Modern Synthesis -
III Biology -
15 Introduction: Lamarckian Problematics in Biology -
16 Lamarck’s Dangerous Idea -
17 Behavior, Stress, and Evolution in Light of the Novosibirsk Selection Experiments -
18 The Role of Cellular Plasticity in the Evolution of Regulatory Novelty -
19 Evolutionary Implications of Individual Plasticity -
20 Epigenetic Variability in a Predator-Prey System -
21 Cellular Epigenetic Inheritance in the Twenty-First Century -
22 An Evolutionary Role for RNA-Mediated Epigenetic Variation? -
23 Maternal and Transgenerational Influences on Human Health -
24 Plants: Individuals or Epigenetic Cell Populations? -
25 Instantaneous Genetic and Epigenetic Alterations in the Wheat Genome Caused by Allopolyploidization -
26 Lamarckian Leaps in the Microbial World -
27 Symbionts as an Epigenetic Source of Heritable Variation -
IV Philosophy -
V Ramifications and Future Directions -
Appendix A: Mandelstam’s Poem “Lamarck” -
Appendix B: Mechanisms of Cell Heredity - Further Reading
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Index
