Molecular paleontology

Marotta, I. and F Rollo (2002), Molecular paleontology, Cell. Molec. Life Sci. 59(1), 97-111. 

Yamamoto M., Ficken K., Baas M., Bosch H.-J., and de Leuw J. W. (1996) Molecular paleontology of the earliest danian at geulhemmerberg (the Netherlands). Egol. en Mijnbouw 75, 255-267. 

An understanding of the biogeochemistry of organic matter In the contemporary marine environment Is important In order to facilitate a greater understanding of 1) the C, N, S and P cycle 11) Interactions between organic compounds and biota, e.g. chemotaxis 111) Interpretations of molecular paleontology In ancient sediments and petroleum formation Iv) the Inputs, fates and effects of pollutants as has been set forth In several reviews (1-6) ... 

Kenig F, Damste JSS, Deleeuw JW, Hayes JM (1994) Molecular Paleontological Evidence for Food-Web Relationships. Naturwiss 81 128-130... 

The polymerase chain reaction is credited with making possible the development of a whole new field of saidy, the study of ancient DNA. Labeled by some molecular paleontology, these studies recently... 

Miklos, G. L. G (1993) Emergence of Organizational Complexities During Metazoan Evolution Perspectives from Molecular Biology, Paleontology and Neo-Darwinism, Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Paleontologists, 15, 28. 

Shaffer, H.B., P. Meylan, and M.L. McKnight (1997). Tests of turtle phylogeny Molecular, morphological, and paleontological approaches. System. Biol. 46 235-268. 

Even 30 years ago paleontology was virtually the only source of information about the periods when common ancestors lived. Indeed, the mammalian fossil record was not particularly good. Early writers on comparative biochemistry, such as Baldwin and Florkin, were limited in their sources. Perhaps the first person to perceive the unique value of the molecular evolution of proteins and nucleic acids was Anfinsen (1959), who wrote of this subject in his important book. However, it appears to have been Zuckerkandl and Pauling who, in 1960—1965, introduced the concept of the molecular clock (for a historical review which is part of a group of important critical papers in an issue of the Journal of Molecular Evolution, see Zuckerkandl, 1987). 

In addition to comparison of amino acid and nucleotide sequences of a-lactalbumin, and their rates of change as molecular clocks, a considerable amount of comparative information has accumulated on the three-dimensional structure of these proteins their physical properties in soludon effects of amino acid subsdtudons, in both genetic and cloned variants and their funcdons and immunological properties. In assessing this informadon it is important not to lose sight of the known paleontological informadon on the origin and evolution of mammals. 

Benner S. A., Caraco M. D., Thomson J. M., and Gaucher E. A. (2002) Evolution—Planetary biology—Paleontological, geological, and molecular histories of life. Science 296(5569), 864-868. 

Ayala, J., Rzhetsky, A. and Ayala, F. J. Origin of metazoan phyla molecular clocks confirm paleontological estimates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95 606-611 1998. 

Paleontology of the past is revived in molecular systematics of the present, in its search for ancestors and centers of origin. The revival ignores, or retreats from, the cladistic reform of paleontology of the 1970s, with historical roots in the work of Louis Dollo (1857-1931) and fossil Inngfishes. The subsequent development of cladistics has been arrested, too, by compnter implementations of character optimization and the ideology of total evidence, which reflects a phenetic rather than cladistic objective the overall similarity of synapomorphy. 

Smith, A. and Littlewood, D.T.L., Paleontological data and molecular phylogenetic analysis. Paleobiology, 20, 259-273, 1994. 

Magallon, S. (2004) Dating lineages Molecular and paleontological approaches to the temporal framework of clades. International Journal of Plant Science, 165 S7-S21. 

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