Genetics (non-medical)

This stunning field guide provides a comprehensive resource for identifying and appreciating nearly 500 species of spiders.

This new volume of Current Topics in Developmental Biology covers epigenetics and development, with contributions from an international board of authors.

This book serves as the first comprehensive compilation describing the breeding strategies and genetics and genomics of the coconut palm.

Global climate change requires the development of programs that consider the active restoration of degraded forests and the use of native trees in afforestation to preserve the natural environment.

How honeybees make collective decisions-and what we can learn from this amazing democratic processHoneybees make decisions collectively-and democratically.

Genetic and Genomic Resources For Cereals Improvement is the first book to bring together the latest available genetic resources and genomics to facilitate the identification of specific germplasm, trait mapping, and allele mining that are needed to more effectively develop biotic and abiotic-stress-resistant grains.

We are all fascinated by, and often wary of, the tiny animals that creep and crawl in our gardens or lurk in the dark corners of our homes, but how much do we really know about insects and their relatives?

Human genomes are 99.

The first section of this book covers recent research developments on the silkworm, B.

This book contains 26 chapters.

Advances in Cancer Research, volume 153 provides a timely review of the biology, biochemistry, and current approaches to therapeutically target the RAS oncoprotein, the most frequently mutated oncogene family in human cancers.

This two-volume work surveys the entire range of general aspects of chromosome research in plants.

Mosquitos: Species, Distribution and Disease opens with a discussion on the potential use of plant-derived saponins as a natural larvicide to help prevent and control disease outbreaks in mosquito-infested areas.

Bioactive compounds produced by natural sources, such as plants, microbes, endophytic fungi, etc.

Histone Modifications in Therapy provides an in-depth analysis of the role of histone mechanisms in major diseases and the promise of targeting histone modifications for disease prevention and treatment.

Genetic engineering is a powerful tool for crop improvement.

This book is an excellent introductory text describing the use of bioinformatics to analyze genomic and post-genomic data.

Plants and the soil they grow in, are confronted with severe biotic and abiotic stresses viz.

Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Epigenetics is a comprehensive reference for the epigenetic basis of most common neuropsychiatric disorders.

Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia provides the first synthesis of the remarkable diversity, evolutionary complexity, and conservation importance of the flora and fauna in the Mediterranean region, with emphasis on the three major peninsular refugia.

An updated edition of this popular textbook, covering recognition, biology, ecology and medical importance of the arthropods that affect human health.

Advances in Genetics increases its focus on modern human genetics and its relation to medicine with the merger of this long-standing serial with Molecular Genetic Medicine.

Nutritional Epigenomics offers a comprehensive overview of nutritional epigenomics as a mode of study, along with nutrition's role in the epigenomic regulation of disease, health and developmental processes.

This volume provides essential and fundamental protocols on manipulation chromosome.

There are several types of damage that can be found in the male gamete.

This book comprehensively discusses the applications of molecular genetics, functional and structural genomics, and proteomics vis-a-vis bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and robotics in livestock healthfulness and productivity.

A complete guide to endonuclease-based genomic engineering, from basic science to application in disease biology and clinical treatment.

The human genome is a linear sequence of roughly 3 billion bases and information regarding this genome is accumulating at an astonishing rate.

A team of renowned bioinformaticians take innovative approaches to lead biology students from first principles towards computational thinking.

Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) has been promoted under the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of combining biodiversity conservation goals with economic development.

While the creation of Dolly the sheep, the world's most famous clone, triggered an enormous amount of discussion about human cloning, in Dolly Mixtures the anthropologist Sarah Franklin looks beyond that much-rehearsed controversy to some of the other reasons why the iconic animal's birth and death were significant.

Due to its prolific reproduction and the external development of the transparent embryo, the zebrafish is the prime model for genetic and developmental studies, as well as research in genomics.

This contributed volume offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the various aspects of long non-coding RNAs and discusses their emerging significance.

Chemogenomics is the systematic screening of targeted chemical libraries of small molecules against individual drug target families with the ultimate goal of identification of novel drugs and drug targets.

Synthetic Biology provides a framework to examine key enabling components in the emerging area of synthetic biology.

A comprehensive review of recent work on chromatin and non-histone proteins, this book arises from the interactions of a multidisciplinary group of scientists involved in the study of acetylation.

Diatom biology, genomics and ecology are becoming more relevant to the human species.

Somatic genome manipulation is required when a sexual crossing approach cannot be used in breeding or genetic treatment of an individual organism.

This book presents recent advancements, challenges, and clinical implications of molecular biomarkers in various cancers.

This book, written by a leading geneticist, examines the ethical and social issues raised by the genetic testing of children.

Continuing in the tradition of its predecessors, this new edition combines an informal, easy to read style with a thorough introduction to concepts and terminology of plant pathology.

During the past 15 years, cellular and molecular approaches have emerged as valuable adjuncts to supplement and complement conventional breeding methods for a wide variety of crop plants.

Evolution is the single unifying principle of biology and core to everything in the life sciences.

Plant Genome Analysis presents outstanding analyses of technologies, as well as explanations of molecular technology as it pertains to agriculture.

In this landmark work, the author team led by Dr.

This title will focus on the study of human interphase chromosomes and its relation to health and disease.

Islands are special places; they can be havens for unique plants and animals and refuges for wildlife.

Non-coding RNA in Plants: Modulation and Stress Responses is the first book to present the basics of the importance of long non-coding RNA and its potential in addressing abiotic and biotic stresses.

This fully revised 3rd edition of Fungal Genomics highlights the impact of genomics on the field of fungal biology in four sections: Part I Genome Sequences and Beyond: Examines the impact of genome-based information and techniques on research ranging from the discovery of giant transposons to the analysis of less-studied extremotolerant fungi as well as studies of three-dimensional chromatin organization in fungi.

Topology and Physics of Circular DNA presents comprehensive coverage of the physical properties of circular DNA.