"This book chronicles the muddled history of molecular biology. The complexity of animal and plant genomes and early conceptual triumphs further complicate this record. Key personalities, their hubris and prescient predictions are illustrated with quotes, archival material, phot…
New and expanded for its second edition, Environmental Microbiology: From Genomes to Biogeochemistry¸ Second Edition, is a timely update to a classic text filled with ideas, connections, and concepts that advance an in-depth understanding of this growing segment of microbiology.…
Many genes have been cloned from chicken cells, and during the next decade numerous laboratories will be concentrating their resources in developing ways of using these tools. Manipulation of the Avian Genome contains the most recent information from leading research laboratorie…
Using model organisms from the three domains of life (Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya), this textbook explains the principle molecular mechanisms of DNA replication and shows how the process is linked to cell division. This approach allows the book to give insight into how genome…
Personal genomics services such as 23andMe and Ancestry.com now offer what once was science fiction: the ability to sequence and analyze an individual's entire genetic code--promising, in some cases, facts about that individual's ancestry that may have remained otherwise lost. S…
DNA is our chemical blueprint, but the Human Genome Project found that over ninety percent of it is not coded. In fact, only approximately four percent creates the 23,000 genes in the Human body. The rest? It's a puzzle to the extreme, and to this day there is no answer why most…
