Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

This book is devoted entirely to methods developed in and for studies of members of the bacterial family Streptococcaceae.

Our current knowledge of marine organisms and the factors affecting their ecology, distribution and evolution has been revolutionised by the use, in the last 20 years, of molecular population genetics tools.

This proceedings volume includes selected papers presented at the international symposium `Live Food Organisms in Marine Larviculture' held in Nagasaki, Japan, September 1-4 1996.

Recent studies have shown that genetic polymorphisms play an important role in structuring the seasonal life cycles of insects, complementing an earlier emphasis on the effects of environmental factors.

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Chromosomes Today volume 14 records the plenary proceedings of the 14th International Chromosome Conference, presenting an overview of the current concerns in plant, animal and human cytogenetics.

Aging is one of those subjects that many biologists feel is largely unknown.

During the last 40 years, the study of the biological basis of aging has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respectable field of study and research.

During the last 40 years, the study of the biological basis of aging has progressed tremendously, and it has now become an independent and respectable field of study and research.

Flow cytometry has rapidly evolved into a technique for rapid analysis of DNA content, cellular marker expression and electronic sorting of cells of interest for further investigations.

Evolution is the most profound of human ideas integrating all natural phenomena: cosmic, biological, and cultural into a continuous universal change.

Critical to the accurate diagnosis of human illness is the need to distinguish clinical features that fall within the normal range from those that do not.

One Hundred Years of Chromosome Research: What Remains to be Learned, offers the reader a critical analysis of the observations and experiments that shaped the last 100 years of chromosome research, as well as the ideas which prevailed during this period.

The double helix architecture of DNA was elucidated in 1953.

Adverse environmental factors can impose stress on plants and influence the expression of the full genetic potential for growth and reproduction.

The book aims to review knowledge on the disorders of eating behaviour and body composition in some of the non-primate higher animals and to relate these to similar conditions in humans.

This book brings together twelve chapters on fungal pathogens with the goal of presenting an overview of the current areas of activity and the common themes that pervade research on these important organisms.

This collection of essays represents the work produced in the course of a three-year project funded by the Commission of the European Communities under the Biomed I programme, on the ethics of genetic screening, entitled 'Genetic screening: ethical and philosophical perspectives, with special reference to multifactorial diseases'.

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.

Few would dispute the truth of the statement `People are Different', but there is much controversy over why.

Many changes that occur during the embryonic development of an individual animal can be seen as a parallel to changes that have occurred in species or groups of species during evolutionary time.

In most breeding programs of plant and animal species, genetic data (such as data from field progeny tests) are used to rank parents and help choose candidates for selection.

Herpesviruses, classified in the family Herpesviridae, are important human and animal pathogens that can cause primary, latent or recurrent infections and even cancer.

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This book is something which almost accidentally has developed very differently from how it was initially planned.

Anatomy to most people is a subject which suggests the cutting up of dead bodies (the word literally means cutting up).

This is a book for beginners.

Latest figures suggest that approximately 20% of the world's population of six billion is malnourished because of food shortages and inadequate distrib- ution systems.

In the 100 years since the legume-Rhizobium symbiotic nitrogen fixation interaction was first described, interest in this field has grown rapidly.

In contemporary ethical discussion widespread concern about the potential risks of genetic engineering is raising new and fundamental questions about our responsibilities towards unborn generations.

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Members of the family Littorinidae are among the most widely studied gastropod molluscs and the more questions we answer about this group, the more questions are inevitably posed.

The study of life is the study of tier upon tier of interlocking homeostatic mechanisms, and the main theme of this book concerns that part of the system that ensures cellular and tissue homeostasis and thus maintains tissue mass, tissue structure and tissue function in the adult mammal.

Although debated since the time of Darwin, the evolutionary role of mutation is still controversial.

Genetic Resources of Mediterranean Pasture and Forage Legumes is a comprehensive review of grassland improvement in Mediterranean areas using legume species.

Biomedical research will be revolutionised by the current efforts to sequence the human genome and the genomes of model organisms.

A comprehensive account of genomic rearrangement, focusing on the mechanisms of inversion, translocation, gene and genome duplication and gene transfer and on the patterns that result from them in comparative maps.

Plant molecular biology has produced an ever-increasing flood of data about genes and genomes.

It is now more than half a century since animal cells first came into regular use in the laboratory.

During the last 50 years, the perception oftransposable elements (TEs) has changed considerably from selfish DNA to sequences that may contribute significantly to genome function and evolution.

This book emerged from a series of lectures on crop evolution at the Faculty of Agriculture of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Once considered merely `selfish' or `parasitic' DNA, transposable elements are today recognized as being of major biological significance.

It is a distressing truism that the human race during the last millennium has caused the exponential loss of plant genetic diversity throughout the world.

This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive collection of reviews on various aspects of epigenetic gene silencing in plants.

New interest in light microscopy of the last few years has not been backed up by adequate general literature.

Magnetic resonance is a safe, non-invasive technique which can be used to produce high resolution, thin tomographic slices in any chosen plane, or true three-dimensional blocks of information.

In situ hybridization has developed as a means of localizing specific DNA and RNA sequences within tissues.