The implicit genome
By: edited by Lynn Helena Caporale.
Contributors: Caporale, Lynn Helena.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9780195172706; 9780195172713
Subjects: Evolutionary genetics; Genome; Evolution, Molecular; Immunity -- genetics; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid -- physiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sequence-dependent properties of DNA and their role in function / Donald Crothers; title: Mutation as a phenotype / Errol C. Friedberg; title: Repeats and variation in pathogen selection / Chris Bayliss and Richard Moxon; title: Tuning knobs in the genome: evolution of simple sequence repeats by indirect selection / David G. King, Edward N. Trifonov, Yechezkel Kashi; title: Implicit information in eukaryotic pathogens as the basis of antigenic variation / J. Dave Barry; title: The role of repeat sequences in bacterial genetic adaptation to stress / Eduardo P.C. Rocha; title: The role of mobile DNA in the evolution of prokaryotic genomes / Ian Paulsen & Claire Fraser; title: Eukaryotic transposable elements: teaching old genomes new tricks / Susan R. Wessler; title: Assembling genes in the immune system / Ellen Hsu; title: Focused mutation in the immune system / Rupert Beale, Dagmar Iber; title: Regulated and unregulated recombination of G-rich genomic regions / Nancy Maizels; title: The role of the genome in the initiation of meiotic recombination / Rhona H. Borts & David T. Kirkpatrick; title: Nuclear duality and the genesis of unusual genomes in ciliated protozoa / Carolyn Jahn; title: Editing informational content of expressed DNA sequences and their transcripts / Harold C. Smith; title: Alternative splicing / Brenton Graveley; title: Imprinting; the hidden genome / Alyson Ashe and Emma Whitelaw.