Published November, 2011
By Robert King
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Many of the essays will deal with various aspects of the biology of certain species or species groups selected because they are favorite subjects for genetic investigation in nature or the laboratory.

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Published November, 2011
By Thomas Liehr and UNIQUE
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Human beings normally have a total of 46 chromosomes, with each chromosome present twice, apart from the X and Y chromosomes in males. Some three million people worldwide, however, have 47 chromosomes: they have a small supernumerary marker chromosome (sSMC) in addition to the 46 normal ones.

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Published November, 2011
By W.J. Schull and F. Rothhammer
Publisher: Springer
Series: Studies in Human Biology
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Von Tschudi (1847), for example, observed 'in the cordillera the effect of the diminished atmospheric pressure on the human frame shows itself in intolerable symptoms of weariness and an extreme difficulty of breathing .

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Published November, 2011
By Isabelle Mercier, Jean Francois Jasmin and Michael P. Lisanti
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Current Cancer Research
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Caveolins are important structural proteins of Caveolae, small invaginations of the membrane. In this volume, we will mainly focus on the importance of Caveolin-1 in breast, prostate, lung, skin, colon, pancreatic and brain cancers with also a mention of the novel role of Caveolin-3 in breast cancer.

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Published November, 2011
By Paul Popescu, Helene Hayes, Bernard Dutrillaux and R. Popescu
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Principles and Practice
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Paul Popescu, Directeur de Recherche at INRA, has also played a promi nent part in the development of animal cytogenetics, especially in domestic animals. She showed the fascinating correspondence between bovine and human chromosomes and the com pared gene maps of domestic bovidae.

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Published November, 2011
By Valerii N. Soyfer, Vladimir N. Potaman and Valery N. Soyfer
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The ability of DNA to exist in configurations other than its classical double-stranded form has been known for many years. Interest in triple-helical nucleic acids has been greatly stimulated by their potential exploitation to control gene expression, serve as tools in genome mapping strategies, etc.

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Published November, 2011
By Michael Crawford
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Given my previous experi ence in estimating Spanish and African admixture in the Tlaxcaltecan population (whose gene pool consisted predominantly of Indian alleles), a group that appeared to be primarily African with some Indian admixture was of great interest.

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Published October, 2011
By Richard O. Snyder and Philippe Moullier
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Progress in rAAV-mediated gene transfer is so robust that long-term, efficient, and regulatable transgene expression is reproducibly achieved in large animal models. This book provides a complete and comprehensive guide to this rapidly progressing field.

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Published October, 2011
By Axel R. Zander, Wolfram Ostertag, Boris V. Afanasiev, F. Grosveld and Frank Grosveld
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Nato ASI Subseries H:
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Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Gene Technology in Analysis and Treatment of Malignant and Inherited Human Disease Related to Development", held at Wilsede, Germany, and St. Petersburg, Russia, June 19-26, 1994

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Published October, 2011
By Kathryn S. Plaisance, Thomas A. C. Reydon, Thomas A.C. Reydon and Thomas Reydon
Publisher: Springer
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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The volume is intended to be of interest to a broad range of audiences, which includes philosophers (e.g., philosophers of mind, philosophers of biology, and metaethicists), as well as practicing scientists, such as biologists or psychologists whose interests relate to biological explanations of behavior.

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