Biocommunication and Natural Genome Editing

• Main Author: Witzany, G<U+00fc>nther. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biological models.; Microbiology.; Botany.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Systems Biology.; Plant Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3319-2

This is the first uniform description of all key levels of communication in the organismic kingdoms of plants, fungi, animals and bacteria based on the most recent empirical data. Biocommunication occurs on three levels (A) intraorganismic, i.e. intra- and intercellular, (B) interorganismic, between...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction: Metaphysical and Post-metaphysical Relationships of Humans with Nature and Life
• 2. Plant Communication
• 3. Communicative Competences of Honey-Bees
• 4. Biocommunication of Corals
• 5. Biocommunication of Fungal Organisms
• 6. Bacteria Communication
• 7. Natural Genome Editing Competences of Viruses and Virus-Like Agents
• 8. How Bacteria Escaped Selection Pressure of the Early RNA-World
• 9. The Viral Origins of Telomeres and Telomerases
• 10. Real Life-world of noncoding RNA-species
• 11. Outlook.