Product Description: Molecular, genetic and modelling techniques are central to ecology, providing valuable new tools for addressing complex ecological questions. Genes in the Environment presents a review of the recent research in this exciting and rapidly developing field, illustrating how such techniques have provided considerable new insights into our understanding of the dynamics of populations and communities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Each contributor to this publication was asked to examine how molecular genetic tools have contributed to their specific areas of consideration. To increase the practical utility of the book, a summary of software that is available for the anaylsis of data in molecular ecology is included...read more

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Product Description: Research into the structure and functions of proteins, DNA and RNA as well as on genomic information has opened up a new area in the study of biological evolution and thus on our understanding of life. During the last two decades, several important and unexpected findings in molecular biology including the existence of intervening sequences (introns) and the enzymatic function of RNA (ribozymes), have been revealed...read more

Product Description: In the summer of 1992 a distinguished group of molecular, population and evolutionary geneticists assembled on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, USA to discuss the relevance of their research to the role played by transposable elements (TEs) in evolution...read more

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Product Description: This compilation of twenty reviews by well-known researchers presents current genetic and molecular genetic approaches to the study of protein structure and function both in vitro and in vivo. The approaches described here are applicable to the study of most proteins involved in cell and developmental biology...read more

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Product Description: Twenty-eight articles by leading international researchers survey the statics and dynamics of chromatin architecture and highlight their current research in the field. The collection provides the first synopsis of all aspects of eukaryotic gene architecture and covers animal, human, and plant genes...read more

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Product Description: This volume provides a timely survey of the molecular biology of the endocrine system with special emphasis on the molecular mechanisms underlying hormonal control of cellular metabolism, reproduction, development and growth. The first part of the volume contains contributions from the invited speakers, organized into sessions covering peptide and polypeptide hormones, growth factors and oncogenes, peptide and protein receptors, glycoprotein hormones, steroid receptors and gene regulation, and lymphokines, interleukins, interferons and receptors...read more