Overview
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Julian M. Crampton
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Division of Molecular Biology and Immunology, Wolfson Unit of Molecular Genetics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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C. Ben Beard
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Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
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Christos Louis
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Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas and Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Care and Maintenance of Insect Colonies
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- Eddie W. Cupp, Frank B. Ramberg
Pages 31-40
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- Ron H. Gooding, Udo Feldmann, Alan S. Robinson
Pages 41-55
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- Patricia de Azambuja, Eloi S. Garcia
Pages 56-64
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Experimental Infection of Insect Vectors
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- Albert E. Bianco, Peter J. Ham
Pages 121-135
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- Eloi S. Garcia, Patricia de Azambuja
Pages 146-155
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Basic Methods in Isolating, Cloning and Characterizing Nucleic Acids and their Products
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Front Matter
Pages 157-157
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- Melanie J. Palmer, William C. Black IV
Pages 172-194
About this book
Only one generation ago, entomology was a proudly isolated discipline. In Comstock Hall, the building of the Department of Entomology at Cornell University where I was first introduced to experimental science in the laboratory of Tom Eisner, those of us interested in the chemistry of life felt like interlopers. In the 35 years that have elapsed since then, all of biology has changed, and entomology with it. Arrogant molecular biologists and resentful classical biologists might think that what has happened is a hostile take-over of biology by molecular biology. But they are wrong. More and more we now understand that the events were happier and much more exciting, amounting to a new synthesis. Molecular Biology, which was initially focused on the simplest of organisms, bacteria and viruses, broke out of its confines after the initial fundamental questions were answered - the structure of DNA, the genetic code, the nature of regulatory genes - and, importantly, as its methods became more and more generally applicable. The recombinant DNA revo lution of the 1970s, the development of techniques for sequencing macromolecules, the polymerase chain reaction, new molecular methods of genetic analysis, all brought molecular biology face to face with the infinite complexity and the exuber ant diversity of life. Molecular biology itself stopped being an isolated diScipline, pre occupied with the universal laws of life, and became an approach to addressing fas cinating specific problems from every field of biology.
Editors and Affiliations
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Division of Molecular Biology and Immunology, Wolfson Unit of Molecular Genetics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Julian M. Crampton
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Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
C. Ben Beard
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Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas and Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Christos Louis
