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Homology Effects offers contributions from an international panel of researchers whose aim has been both to introduce newcomers to the field of homology effects, and to bring colleagues up to date. Topic coverage includes dosage compensation, X-inactivation, imprinting, paramutation, homology-dependent gene silencing, transvection, pairing-sensitive silencing, nuclear organization of chromosomes, DNA repair, quelling, RIP, RNAi and antisense biology, homology effects in ciliates, prion biology, and a discourse on the evolution of gene duplications.
Advances in Genetics presents an eclectic mix of articles of use to all human and molecular geneticists. They are written and edited by recognized leaders in the field and make this an essential series of books for anyone in the genetics field.
List of contents
1. Sex and the Single Chromosome
2. Is X-Chromosome Inactivation a Homology Effect?
3. Homologous Chromosome Associations and Nuclear Order in Meiotic and Mitotically Dividing Cells of Budding Yeast
4. The Role of Sequence Homology in the Repair of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Drosophila
5. The Origins of Genomic Imprinting in Mammals
6. Genomic Imprinting During Seed Development
7. Long-Distance Cis and Trans Interactions Mediate Paramutation
8. Homology-Dependent Gene Silencing and Host Defense in Plants
9. Quelling in Neurospora crassa
10. Non-Mendelian Inheritance and Homology-Dependent Effects in Ciliates
11. RNAi (Nematodes: Caenorhabditis elegans)
12. Antisense RNAs in Bacteria and Their Genetic Elements
13. Transvection in Drosophila
14. Pairing-Sensitive Silencing, Polycomb Group Response Elements, and Transposon Homing in Drosophila
15. Repeat-Induced Gene Silencing in Fungi
16. The Evolution of Gene Duplicates
17. Prions of Yeast as Epigenetic Phenomena: High Protein "Copy Number” Inducing Protein "Silencing”
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PRAISE FOR THE SERIES:
"Outstanding both in variety and in the quality of its contributions." --NATURE
"Can be highly recommended to geneticists, and biologists in general...will prove to be of high importance for the development of the science of genetics." --SCIENCE
"The high standards of the Advances series of Academic Press are now almost taken for granted..." --SCIENCE PROGRESS
