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Advances in Genetics

  • 1st Edition, Volume 73 - February 7, 2011
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Stephen F. Goodwin, Jay C. Dunlap, Theodore C. Friedman
  • Language: English

Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the mo… Read more

Description

Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the most widely used model organisms, describes the latest genetic discoveries in relation to neural circuit development and activity.

Key features

  • Explores the latest topics in neural circuits and behavior research in zebrafish, drosophila, C.elegans, and mouse models
  • Includes methods for testing with ethical, legal, and social implications
  • Critically analyzes future prospects

Readership

Geneticists, molecular biologists, neurobiologists

Table of contents

  1. Drosophila Models of Parkinson’s Disease.

    2. Alex Whitworth

  2. Cell Cycle Regulated Gene Expression In Yeasts

    3. Christopher J. McInerny

  3. RNA editing by mammalian ADARs

    4. Mary A. O’Connell, Marion Hogg, Simona Paro, Liam P. Keegan

  4. Cell entry of enveloped viruses

    5. Dimitri LAVILLETTE, François-Loic COSSET

  5. Molecular Signalling: how do axons die?

    6. Michael Coleman

  6. Restless Genomes: humans as a model organism for understanding host- retrotransposable element dynamics

Victoria P. Belancio, Dale J. Hedges

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 73
  • Published: February 22, 2011
  • Language: English

About the editors

SG

Stephen F. Goodwin

Dr. Stephen Goodwin works at the University of Oxford.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Oxford, UK

JD

Jay C. Dunlap

Dr. Jay Dunlap works at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Affiliations and expertise
The Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth, NH, USA

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