Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics
Contributors: Mark Pagel (Editor); Andrew Pomiankowski (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Sinauer Associates Inc.,U.S.
Published: December 10, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780878936540
Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); Molecular biology; Science / Biological Sciences; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Science; Evolutionary genetics; Genomics; Proteomics; Science/Mathematics
Description: Highlights new research on developments in the rapidly advancing areas of genomics and proteomics, with particular emphasis on placing these fields in an evolutionary context. Topics incude systems biology, the origin of genes and lateral gene transfer, gene regulation and gene dispensability, proteome complexity, genomic immune systems, sex-biased genomic expression, sex chromosome evolution, gene and protein network evolution, adaptive genome evolution, and human evolutional genomics.