The genes we share with yeast, flies, worms, and mice
Subtitle: new clues to human health and disease
By: a report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Contributors: Pines, Maya.; Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Publisher: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chevy Chase, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Genomes -- Popular works; Gene mapping -- Popular works; Human gene mapping -- Popular works; Medical genetics -- Popular works; Genomics -- popular works; Genetics -- trends -- popular works; Genome, Human -- popular works; Genetics, Medical -- popular works; Research -- popular works
Genres: Popular works.; popular works.
Other titles: Genes we share
Notes: Cover title.

"This is the eighth in a series of reports about biomedical science"--Inside front cover.

Editor, Maya Pines--P. 100.
Table of contents: title: Discovering what the genes in a living cell do-starting with yeast / by Maya Pines; title: Unexpected rewards from our similarity to fruit flies / by Gary A. Taubes; title: The first animal to have its entire genome sequenced: C. elegans / by Maya Pines; title: Treasures await those who study our closest relative among model organisms: the mouse / by Stephen S. Hall; title: Shuttling between species to make sense of the human genome / by Maya Pines; title: Poster: human disease genes that are found in flies, worms, and yeast.