Genes IV - Hardcover

Lewin, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198542682 ISBN 13: 9780198542681

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

The purpose of this book is to account for the structure and function of genes in terms of extensive knowledge about both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. It explains what a gene is, how it is reproduced and what controls its expression. This new edition has completely new chapters on protein trafficking and eukaryotic gene transcription. It has a new introduction to the subject, making the book more approachable to less advanced students. Chapters on bacterial transcriptions, post-transcriptional control, interrupted gene structure, RNA splicing, transposons in bacteria, transposable elements in eukaryotes, gene expression in development, and the role of oncogenes in carcinogenesis have been completely rewritten.

About this title

About the Author:

Benjamin Lewin took his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from Cambridge (England). He was then editor of Nature New Biology and a visiting fellow at the National Institutes for Health. He has been editor of Cell, the premier journal in the field, since 1974. He has unique access to the very best of current research results and thinking.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0198542682
• ISBN 13: 9780198542681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 880