Biochemical evolution and the origin of life;: Proceedings of the International Conference on Biochemical Evolution (Molecular evolution) - Hardcover

CONTENTS: Electronic Factors in biochemical evolution; the influence of the genetic code on protein evolution; genes, chromosomes and molecular evolution; the neurohypophyseal hormones, an example of molecular evolution; molecular expression of evolutionary phenomena in the primary and tertiary structures of cyhtochrome c; phyulogeny of immunoglobulins; slectional trends in the structure of fibrinogen in different species; phylogeny of activation peptides of trypsinogen; evolution of phosphagen kinases; evolution of hormones; examples of vertebrate evolution as indicted by bile salt types and by general morphology; evolution of respiratory chain and of its flavoproteins; bioenergetic evolution; the evolution of chlorophyll containing photoactive structures; the evolution of photosynthetic caron metabolism, the role of sequences ancillary to the Calvin cycle; biochemical evolution of plants; evolution of biochemical processes in micro-organisms; biochemical aspects of regressive evolution in animals; adaptation at the molecular scale; membranes in evolution; radoomness and thermodynamics of molecular evolution; evolution as a biochemical process. ADDITIONAL AUTHORS: R. Schyns; M. Florkin; D. C. Watts; E. J. W. Barrington; G. A. D. Haslewood; T. P. Singer; E. Broda; C. Sironval; R. C. Fuller; T. Swain; J. De Ley; Ch. Jeuniaux; E. Sschoffeniels; DE. C. Tosteson; H. Vogel; E. Zuckerkandl; and, M. Florkin.