The Microbial Models of Molecular Biology
Subtitle: From Genes to Genomes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 14, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195154368
First sentence: As long as we humans have sought our place in the universe, with all its regularity, sustenance, and danger, living organisms have fascinated us.
Description: Explains the role of simple biological model systems in the growth of molecular biology. This book presents the history of molecular biology, tracing the work in bacteriophages in E coli the role of other prokaryotic systems, the protozoan and algal models, and the move into eukaryotes with the fungal systems - Neurospora, Aspergillus and yeast.