Bertrand J.C. auteur aut IRD Bonin P. auteur aut IRD Ollivier Bernard auteur aut IRD Alain K. auteur aut IRD Godfroy A. auteur aut IRD Pradel Nathalie auteur aut IRD Normand P. auteur aut IRD text bookSection eng text/pdf born digital access How can the evolutionary success of prokaryotes be explained ? How did they manage to survive conditions that have fluctuated, with drastic events over 3.5 billion years ? Which significant metabolisms and mechanisms have appeared over the course of evolution that have permitted them to survive the most inhospitable conditions from the physicochemical point of view ? In a 'Red Queen Race', prokaryotes have always run sufficiently fast to adapt to constraints imposed by the environment and the other living species with which they have established interactions. If the criterion retained to define the level of evolution of an organism is its capacity to survive and to yield the largest number of offsprings, prokaryotes must be considered highly evolved organisms. specialized 020BIOL Bertrand J.C. ed. edt IRD Normand P. ed. edt IRD Ollivier Bernard ed. edt IRD Sime-Ngando T. ed. edt IRD 131-240 Cham Springer 2018 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010076872 10.1007/978-3-319-99784-1_4 978-3-319-99782-7 [F A010076869] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010076872 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/depot/2019-10-28/010076872.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2019-10-22 2023-07-11 fdi:010076872 fre