Origins of Plastids: Symbiogenesis, Prochlorophytes and the Origins of Chloroplasts

by Ralph A. Lewin

Origins of Plastids looks at symbiosis and symbiogenesis as a mechanism of evolution. This theory of endosymbiotic evolution postulates that photosynthetic prokaryotes living as endosymbionts within eukaryotic cells gradually evolved into the organelle structures called chloroplasts. The theory is controversial but has been strongly advocated by Lynn Margulis. Based on a colloquium held at the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory of the University of California...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412036916
• ISBN13: 9780412036910
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher