Homology Effects (Advances in Genetics, Volume 46) (Advances in Genetics)
Contributors: C-ting Wu (Editor); Jay C. Dunlap (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: March 20, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9780120176465
First sentence: Sexual reproduction is overwhelmingly popular among eukaryotic organisms and is universally credited with contributing to species fitness.
Description: Homology Effects offers contributions from an international panel of researchers whose aim has been both to introduce newcomers to the field of homology effects, and to bring colleagues up to date. Topic coverage includes dosage compensation, X-inactivation, imprinting, paramutation, homology-dependent gene silencing, transvection, pairing-sensitive silencing, nuclear organization of chromosomes, DNA repair, quelling, RIP, RNAi and antisense biology, homology effects in ciliates, prion biology, and a discourse on the evolution of gene duplications.