Genetics (non-medical)

Since the publication of the pioneering first edition of Chemical Genomics and Proteomics more than seven years ago, the area of chemical genomics has rapidly expanded and diversified to numerous novel methods and subdisciplines, such as chemical glycomics and lipidomics.

This book offers a basic understanding of the complex mechanisms that protect the brain from harmful substances while still allowing for essential functions such as nutrient transport and waste removal.

This second edition provides new and updated chapters covering computational and mathematical techniques and concepts related to the field of comparative genomics.

With more than 10,000 species that vary in size, use diverse habitats that extend across latitudes and altitudes, consume a wide variety of food items, differ in how they fly (or not), communicate, and reproduce, and have different life histories, birds exhibit remarkable variation in form (anatomy) and function (physiology).

This title employs biochemical, cell biological, and genetic approaches to study mitochondrial structure, function, and biogenesis.

Fundamentals of Brain and Behavior provides an accessible introduction to the study of human neuroscience.

This volume provides methods to analyze RNA and gain insight to a number of critical cellular functions.

Advancing our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases demands innovative tools and approaches.

This updated and extended second edition provides a comprehensive overview on biotechnological applications of unicellular and multicellular fungi in a variety of industrial settings.

This volume provides essential and fundamental protocols on manipulation chromosome.

This book combines discursive chapters that present the latest progress in molecular biology, drug discovery, organ-tissue engineering, and related fields, with a number of descriptive chapters on methods, protocols, and case studies.

This detailed volume collects commonly used and cutting-edge methods to analyze alternative splicing, a key step in gene regulation.

This third edition expands on the previous editions by providing updated protocols and current methods that cover recent breakthroughs in Drosophila research.

This volume discusses protocols that cover synthesis, screening by selection, and analysis of DNA-encoded chemical libraries (DEL).

This second edition provides updated and comprehensive methods on miRNA biogenesis and their role in the development and progression of various human diseases.

This volume provides a wide spectrum of multidisciplinary approaches for studying RNA structure and dynamics, including detailed accounts of experimental and computational procedures.

The Book of Genes & Genomes  presents a concise overview of the advances in genetics and genomics and provides the unfamiliar reader with a succinct description of many of the applications and implications of this field.

Approximately three percent of newborn humans have congenital anomalies with significant cosmetic and/or functional consequences.

QTL Mapping in Crop Improvement: Present Progress and Future Perspectives presents advancements in QTL breeding for biotic and abiotic stresses and nutritional improvement in a range of crop plants.

Handbook of Epigenetics: The New Molecular and Medical Genetics, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis of epigenetics, from basic biology, to clinical application.

DNA Repair and Cancer Therapy: Molecular Targets and Clinical Applications, Second Edition provides a comprehensive and timely reference that focuses on the translational and clinical use of DNA repair as a target area for the development of diagnostic biomarkers and the enhancement of cancer treatment.

Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is produced during pregnancy by the embryo.

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields.

Cancer therapeutics include an ever-increasing array of tools at the disposal of clinicians in their treatment of this disease.

This updated volume explores Candida and candidiasis methods, useful to a wide variety of Candida scientists including those new to the field.

This volume provides up-to-date and novel techniques for various screening technologies currently used in metagenomics and related areas.

This second edition volume expands on the previous edition with updated techniques and discussions on topics such as gene suppression, editing, and reprogramming; cardiac gene therapy vectors and promoters; cardiac gene delivery methods; pulmonary hypertension; and patient screening and measuring the efficacy of cardiac gene therapy.

This detailed volume provides an overview of recent advances in the application of genomic technologies in several domains of marine biology, raising awareness of various DNA- and RNA-based technologies.

While numerous advanced statistical approaches have recently been developed for quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping, the methods are scattered throughout the literature.

This new edition offers a state-of-the-art and integrative vision of pharmacogenomics by exploring new concepts and practical methodologies focusing on disease treatments, from cancers to cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disorders and more.

This volume provides updated technical approaches that have been developed to characterize monoterpene indole alkaloid metabolism in C.

This detailed volume explores the frontiers of this new era in cancer cytogenetics and cytogenomics, focusing on establishing a karyotype as an information-based genomic framework, as well as presenting technological platforms for collecting and analyzing data at the genome level.

Transcriptomics refers to the study of the transcriptome, which is the complete set of RNA transcripts produced by the genome of a specific cell.

The present book entitled, "e;Re-visiting the Rhizosphere Eco-system for Agricultural Sustainability"e; written by experts in the field, provides a comprehensive and consolidated state-of art overview of various aspects of rhizosphere biology, ecology and functioning.

Colleagues and former students of the late Professor Pritchard (aka Bob), an eminent UK geneticist, have gathered memories about his scientific and personal life.

This book describes the basics and various applications of DNA fingerprinting, including in actual case studies.

This book presents a concept for implementing a mass balance approach toward developing an effective eco-friendly, livestock farming system independent of external energy input.

Known for both its narrative style and scientific rigor, Principles of Behavior is the premier introduction to behavior analysis.

Large-scale chemical fertilizer application causes irreparable damage to soil structure, mineral cycles, soil microbial flora, plants, and other food chains across ecosystems, culminating in heritable mutations in future generations of consumers.

This book covers almost all fields of cancer genetics and genomics for personalized medicine.

Gene-environment (GE) interaction analysis is a statistical method for clarifying GE interactions applicable to a phenotype or a disease that is the result of interactions between genes and the environment.

Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases is at the crossroads between two major scientific fields of the 21st century: evolutionary biology and infectious diseases.

By covering the science, business, and societal impact of nanomedicine, this book makes a strong case for funding of basic research, for effective translation of scientific breakthroughs into clinical care of patients, and for close collaboration among all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.

Since the beginning of the genome project, the necessary involvement of scientists of widely divergent backgrounds has been evident.

Studies on transgenic fish, in contrast to mammals, are still in their infancy.

A simple solution to complicated statistical techniques and formulas!

An international panel of speakers trace the progress of human genetics from its beginning to the present day, in various communities in different countries.

Organisms frequently synthesize enzymes in multiple molecular forms to catalyze the same basic biochemical reactions.

This volume attempts to show molecular modeling as a new multidisciplinary area of research that transcends the boundaries traditionally separating biology, chemistry and physics.