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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Transformation Techniques and Viral Systems
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Front Matter
Pages 421-421
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- Jon O. Carlson, Boris N. Afansiev, Stephen Higgs, Tomoyo Matsubara, Jane C. Burns
Pages 444-458
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- Stephen Higgs, Ken E. Olson, Kurt I. Kamrud, Ann M. Powers, Barry J. Beaty
Pages 459-483
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Cell and Organ Culture
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Front Matter
Pages 485-485
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- Alison C. Morris, Anthony A. James
Pages 500-506
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- Alexander S. Raikhel, Kirk W. Deitsch, Thomas W. Sappington
Pages 507-522
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- Thomas W. Sappington, Mark R. Brown, Alexander S. Raikhel
Pages 523-535
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- Hans-Michael Müller, Andrea Crisanti
Pages 536-544
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Insect Symbionts
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Front Matter
Pages 545-545
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- Susan C. Welburn, Colin Dale
Pages 547-554
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- C. Ben Beard, Serap Aksoy
Pages 555-560
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Back Matter
Pages 567-578
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