FRONTIERS IN BIOSCIENCE PRESENTS

THE SPECIAL ISSUE


EARLY EVOLUTION OF LIFE

Managing Editor: Massimo Di Giulio

  

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Gene content of LUCA, the last universal common ancestor
Arcady Mushegian

[Frontiers in Bioscience 4657-4666, May 1, 2008]

Cytoskeletal thermal ratchets and cytoskeletal tensegrity: determinants of brain asymmetry and symmetry?
John Gardiner, Jan Marc, Robyn Overall

[Frontiers in Bioscience 4649-4656, May 1, 2008]

Gene content of LUCA, the last universal common ancestor
Arcady Mushegian

[Frontiers in Bioscience 4657-4666, May 1, 2008]

Origins and evolution of modern biochemistry: insights from genomes and molecular structure
Gustavo Caetano-Anolles, Feng-Jie Sun, Minglei Wang, Liudmila S. Yafremava, Ajith Harish, Hee Shin Kim, Vegeir Knudsen, Derek Caetano-Anolles, Jay E. Mittenthal

[Frontiers in Bioscience 5212-5240, May 1, 2008]

The genomics of LUCA
Wai-Kin Mat, Hong Xue, Jeffrey Tze-Fei Wong

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 5605-5613, May 1, 2008]

Information, probability, and the abundance of the simplest RNA active sites
Ryan Kennedy, Manuel E. Lladser, Michael Yarus, Rob Knight

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 6060-6071, May 1, 2008]

The basal phylogenetic position of Nanoarchaeum equitans (Nanoarchaeota)
Sergio Branciamore, Enzo Gallori, Massimo Di Giulio

[Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 6886-6892, May 1, 2008]