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RECORD NUMBER: 2062 OF 2347Main Title | The genes we share with yeast, flies, worms, and mice : new clues to human health and disease / | |||||||||||
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Publisher | Howard Hughes Medical Institute, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2001 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 46596966 | |||||||||||
Subjects | Genomics--Popular Works ; Genetics--trends--Popular Works ; Genetics, Medical--Popular Works ; Genome, Human--Popular Works ; Research--Popular Works ; Genomes--Popular works ; Gene mapping--Popular works ; Human gene mapping--Popular works ; Medical genetics--Popular works | |||||||||||
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Collation | 100 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 1 poster (54 x 41 cm. folded to 27 x 21 cm.) | |||||||||||
Notes | Cover title. "This is the eighth in a series of reports about biomedical science"--Inside front cover. Editor, Maya Pines--P. 100. |
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Contents Notes | Discovering what the genes in a living cell do-starting with yeast / by Maya Pines -- Unexpected rewards from our similarity to fruit flies / by Gary A. Taubes -- The first animal to have its entire genome sequenced: C. elegans / by Maya Pines -- Treasures await those who study our closest relative among model organisms: the mouse / by Stephen S. Hall -- Shuttling between species to make sense of the human genome / by Maya Pines -- Poster: human disease genes that are found in flies, worms, and yeast. |