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Woese, C. R., 1996. Phylogenetic trees Wliidier microbiology Current Biology 6 1060—1063. 

DeWeerd KA, L Mandelco, RS Tanner, CR Woese, JM Suflita (1990) Desulfomonile tiedjei gen nov. and sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, dehalogenating, sulfate-reducing bacterium. Arch Microbiol 154 23-30. 

Utkin I, C Woese, J Wiegel (1994) Isolation and characterization of Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans gen. nov, sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium which reductively dechlorinates chlorophenolic compounds. Int J Syst Bacteriol 44 612-619. 

Zhao H, D Yang, CR Woese, MP Bryant (1990) Assignment of Clostridium bryantii to Syntrophospora bry-antii gen. nov., comb. nov. on the basis of a 16S rRNA sequence analysis of its crotonate-grown pure culture. Int J Syst Bacteriol 40 40-44. 

Finally, paradigms frequently have the look of a sensible refuge in a chaotic sea of competing ideas. Monophyly is portrayed in precisely this way even if several alternative refuges are lurking on the horizon. For example, Carl Woese s alternative, which he calls the genetic annealing model (Woese,... 

Based on 16S rDNA analysis (Olsen and Woese, 1993), a dozen main lineages have been described for the eubacteria, and at least four of these lineages have been shown to include intracellular bacteria the... 

A further (mathematical) model for the evolution of the genetic code was devised by Carl Woese and co-workers. This dynamic theory provides information on the evolvability and universality of the genetic code. One conceptual difficulty was due to the fact that it had been overlooked that the genetic code was highly communal... 

Vetsigian K, Woese C, Goldenfeld N (2006) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 10696... 

Woese was able to confirm the previously existing view of the world in which life forms are divided into two kingdoms ... 

Woese chose the name archaebacteria because these microorganisms grow best under conditions which were probably found on the primeval Earth between 3.5 and 4 billion years ago hot boiling water and thermal vents, highly acidic environment, oxygen-free atmosphere and high salt concentrations. 

As already mentioned, the HGT principle has been known for many years however, until about 15 years ago, it was regarded as only a weak force in the evolutionary events involved in the development of primeval cells, whose organisation must have been very simple. They probably had a loose structure which could easily be modified by HGT processes. An important characteristic of Woese s model is the nature of the evolutionary process Woese assumes that cell design could be achieved only by the overall performance of HGT. It was the community as a whole,... 

Biology is presently going through an important phase, as the importance of collective phenomena is becoming very clear (as is the case in other areas). The above-mentioned important and highly complex questions will perhaps only be solved using statistical mechanics and/or dynamic system theory (N. Goldenfeld and C. Woese, 2007). 

Gogarten JP, Kibak H, Dittrich P, Taiz L, Bowman EJ, Manolson MF, Poole RJ, Date T, Oshima T, Konishi J, Denda K, Yoshida M (1989) Proc Nad Acad Sci USA 86 6661 Goldenfeld N, Woese C (2007) Nature 445 369... 

Fig. 5.1. The three domains of life in a radial time sequence based on genetic (RNA) analysis. The distinction between anaerobes and aerobes is not made here and the branching to eukaryotes is left unclear. All the domains advanced with time but in very different ways (see Woese, C. (1998) in Further Reading, and Sogin, M. (1993), Science, 260, 340). Note the general gene transfer in prokaryotes and to eukaryotes (see Chapter 7).

Woese K, Lange D, Boess C and Bogl KW (1997). A comparison of organically and conventionally grown foods - results of a review of the relevant literature . Journal of the Science in Food and Agriculture, 74, 281-293. 

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