Mobile DNA III (ASM Books) - Hardcover

Craig, Nancy L; Craigie, Robert; Gellert, Martin; Lambowitz, Alan M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1555819206 ISBN 13: 9781555819200

Publisher: ASM Press, 2015

Synopsis

This new edition of the bestselling series on movable genetic elements highlights the many exciting advances in the field over the last decade, including conservative site-specific recombination, programmed rearrangements, DNA-only transposons, and LTR, and non-LTR retrotransposons.

Virtually all organisms contain multiple mobile DNAs that can move from place to place, and in some organisms, mobile DNA elements make up a significant portion of the genome. Mobile DNA III provides a comprehensive review of recent research, revealing the many important roles that mobile DNAs play in genome structure, function, and evolution. This book is part three of a series on mobile DNA.

This title is published by the American Society of Microbiology Press and distributed by Taylor and Francis in rest of world territories.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy L. Craig, is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Craig is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

From the Back Cover

Mobile DNA III

Third Edition

An exploration of the raw power of genetic material to refashion itself to any purpose…

Virtually all organisms contain multiple mobile DNAs that can move from place to place, and in some organisms, mobile DNA elements make up a significant portion of the genome. Mobile DNA III provides a comprehensive review of recent research, including findings suggesting the important role that mobile elements play in genome evolution and stability.

Editor-in-Chief Nancy L. Craig assembled a team of multidisciplinary experts to develop this cutting-edge resource that

• covers the specific molecular mechanisms involved in recombination, including a detailed structural analysis of the enzymes responsible
• presents a detailed account of the many different recombination systems that can rearrange genomes
• examines the tremendous impact of mobile DNA in virtually all organisms

Mobile DNA III is valuable as an in-depth supplemental reading for upper level life sciences students and as a reference for investigators exploring new biological systems. Biomedical researchers will find documentation of recent advances in understanding immune-antigen conflict between host and pathogen. It introduces biotechnicians to amazing tools for in vivo control of designer DNAs. It allows specialists to pick and choose advanced reviews of specific elements and to be drawn in by unexpected parallels and contrasts among the elements in diverse organisms.

Mobile DNA III provides the most lucid reviews of these complex topics available anywhere.

From the Inside Flap

Mobile DNA III

Third Edition

An exploration of the raw power of genetic material to refashion itself to any purpose…

Virtually all organisms contain multiple mobile DNAs that can move from place to place, and in some organisms, mobile DNA elements make up a significant portion of the genome. Mobile DNA III provides a comprehensive review of recent research, including findings suggesting the important role that mobile elements play in genome evolution and stability.

Editor-in-Chief Nancy L. Craig assembled a team of multidisciplinary experts to develop this cutting-edge resource that

• covers the specific molecular mechanisms involved in recombination, including a detailed structural analysis of the enzymes responsible
• presents a detailed account of the many different recombination systems that can rearrange genomes
• examines the tremendous impact of mobile DNA in virtually all organisms

Mobile DNA III is valuable as an in-depth supplemental reading for upper level life sciences students and as a reference for investigators exploring new biological systems. Biomedical researchers will find documentation of recent advances in understanding immune-antigen conflict between host and pathogen. It introduces biotechnicians to amazing tools for in vivo control of designer DNAs. It allows specialists to pick and choose advanced reviews of specific elements and to be drawn in by unexpected parallels and contrasts among the elements in diverse organisms.

Mobile DNA III provides the most lucid reviews of these complex topics available anywhere.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASM Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555819206
• ISBN 13: 9781555819200
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1352