Mobile Genetic Elements
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Mobile Genetic Elements

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Mobile Genetic Elements

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Mobile Genetic Elements introduces the nonspecialist to the biology and genetics of mobile elements. It attempts to make the biochemistry of DNA rearrangements more accessible to embryologists and evolutionists, and to illuminate the related developmental cycles to the biochemist. The book also shows how natural the activity of mobile elements can be in diverse biological situations. The chapters describe several well-studied cases in which genetic determinants—often identified as specific nucleic acid sequences—repeatedly change their positions within or between cellular genomes. Because their genomic positions are not fixed, these determinants may conveniently be classed together under the rubric of mobile genetic elements. The book begins with a discussion of maize controlling elements. This is followed by separate chapters on the bacteriophages? and Mu; nonviral mobile elements in bacteria; transposable Ty elements in brewer's yeast; Drosophila transposable element; and hybrid dysgenesis. Subsequent chapters cover vertebrate retroviruses; Agrobacterium oncogenesis in plants; flagellar phase variation in Salmonella; yeast mating type; and surface antigenic variation in trypanosomes.

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Publisher
Academic Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780323143196
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Genetics & Genomics
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Mobile Genetic Elements
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Genomic Reorganization in Cell Lineages
  7. Chapter 1. Controlling Elements in Maize
  8. Chapter 2. Bacteriophage λ
  9. Chapter 3. Phage Mu: Transposition as a Life-Style
  10. Chapter 4. Prokaryotic IS Elements
  11. Chapter 5. Tn3 and Its Relatives
  12. Chapter 6. Transposon Tn10
  13. Chapter 7. Transposable Elements in Yeast
  14. Chapter 8. Dispersed Repetitive DNAs in Drosophila
  15. Chapter 9. Hybrid Dysgenesis Determinants
  16. Chapter 10. Retroviruses
  17. Chapter 11. Agrobacterium Tumor Induction
  18. Chapte 12. Phase Variation and Related Systems
  19. Chapter 13. Mating-Type Genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  20. Chapter 14. Antigenic Variation in Trypanosomes
  21. Index