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  • The Neurospora Compendium

    Chromosomal Loci

    by David D. Perkins, Alan Radford, Matthew S. Sachs ...
    The fungi have been major players in the molecular revolution that has transformed biology. Because they can be manipulated as microorganisms, yeast and Neurospora provide information that is difficult to acquire with plants and animals, and experimental findings with fungi often throw light on corresponding processes in plants and animals. The filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa has become a ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

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  • 10% Human

    How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness

    by Alanna Collen ...
    An evolutionary biologist and science writer explores the widely-ignored role our gut microbes play in our health and well-being.You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will ... Read more

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  • The Origins of the Irish

    by J. P. Mallory ...
    An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective storyAbout eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves come from and what do we even mean by “Irish” in the first place?This is the first major attempt to deal with the core issues of how the Irish came into ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Modern Prometheus

    Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

    by Jim Kozubek ...
    Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Dolly Mixtures

    The Remaking of Genealogy

    by Sarah Franklin ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    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. Building on the work of historians and anthropologists, Franklin reveals Dolly as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Essential Bioinformatics

    by Jin Xiong ...
    Essential Bioinformatics is a concise yet comprehensive textbook of bioinformatics, which provides a broad introduction to the entire field. Written specifically for a life science audience, the basics of bioinformatics are explained, followed by discussions of the state-of-the-art computational tools available to solve biological research problems. All key areas of bioinformatics are covered ... Read more

    $90.19 USD

  • The Age of Genomes

    Tales from the Front Lines of Genetic Medicine

    by Jon Luoma, Steven Monroe Lipkin ...
    A leading geneticist explores what promises to be one of the most transformative advances in health and medicine in historyAlmost every week, another exciting headline appears about new advances in the field of genetics. Genetic testing is experiencing the kind of exponential growth once seen with the birth of the Internet, while the plummeting cost of DNA sequencing makes it increasingly ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Gene Wars

    The Politics of Biotechnology

    by Kristin Dawkins ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this book, Kristin Dawkins discusses the international policies that are shaping this future, including those that govern the genetic engineering of plants. Dawkins shows how a diversified gene pool is crucial to food production ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Advances in Endophytic Research

    Edited by Vijay C. Verma, Alan C. Gange ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In recent years there has been significant attention paid on the endophytic research by various groups working within this domain. Mutualistic endophytic microbes with an emphasis on the relatively understudied fungal endophytes are the focus of this special book. Plants are associated with micro-organisms: endophytic bacteria and fungi, which live inter- and intra-cellularly without inducing ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Nematode-Trapping Fungi

    Edited by Ke-Qin Zhang, Kevin D. Hyde ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    These chapters provide up-to-date information on nematophagous fungi, particularly those of the Orbiliaceae in Ascomycota, whose asexual states produce nematode-trapping devices. The authors consider fungal-nematode interactions, fossil fungi, the biodiversity, ecology and geographical distribution of nematode-trapping fungi, and their potential use in biocontrol of nematodes, all in detail ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Fungal Genomics

    by G.G. Khachatourians, Dilip K Arora ...
    Series Book 4 - Applied Mycology and Biotechnology
    Research in the genomics of a handful of fungi has matured at an unprecedented rate allowing comprehensive review. Developments in fungal genomics should be of great significance to new strategies in fields where disciplinary crossovers of fungal genomics, genes and their regulation, expression, and engineering will have a strong impact in dealing with agriculture, foods, natural resources, life ... Read more

    $242.99 USD

  • The Yeasts

    Yeast Technology

    Edited by Anthony H. Rose, J. Stewart Harrison ...
    Series Book 5 - Yeast Genetics
    This classic series covers the complete biology and biochemistry of the yeasts in six volumes. Volume 5 addresses the major areas of yeast technology relevant to the food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries.* SPECIAL FEATURES:* Final volume of a comprehensive research level edited treatise covering biochemistry physiology, technology of yeasts. The book will cover the major areas of ... Read more

    $84.59 USD