Origin and evolution of telomeres
By: [edited by] Jozef Nosek, Lubomír Tomáska.
Contributors: Nosek, Jozef, Ph.D.; Tomáska, Lubomír.
Publisher: Landes Bioscience
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587063091
Subjects: Telomere; Telomere -- physiology; Evolution, Molecular; Telomerase -- genetics; Telomerase -- physiology; Telomere -- genetics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Telomerase : evolution, structure, and function / Marie-Eve Brault, Yasmin D'Souza, and Chantal Autexier; title: Drosophila telomeres : a variation on the telomerase theme / Mary-Lou Pardue and P. Gregory DeBaryshe; title: Alternative lengthening of telomeres in mammalian cells / Anthony J. Cesare and Roger R. Reddel; title: T-loops, T-circles, and slippery forks / Sarah A. Compton ... [et al.]; title: Molecular diversity of telomeric sequences / Marita Cohn; title: Evolution of telomere binding proteins / Martin P. Horvath; title: Telomeres : guardians of genomic integrity or double agents of evolution? / Michael J. McEachern; title: Evolution, composition, and interrelated functions of telomeres and subtelomeres : lessons from plants / Jirí Fajkus ... [et al.]; title: Telomere position effect and the evolution of the genome / Frederique Magdinier, Alexandre Ottaviani, and Eric Gilson; title: Cancer as a microevolutionary process affecting telomere structure and dynamics : the contribution of telomeres to cancer / J. Arturo Londoño-Vallejo; title: Prokaryotic telomeres : replication mechanisms and evolution / Sherwood R. Casjens and Wai Mun Huang; title: Mitochondrial telomeres : an evolutionary paradigm for the emergence of telomeric structures and their replication strategies / Jozef Nosek and Lubomír Tomáska.