The genes we share with yeast, flies, worms, and mice : new clues to human health and disease /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Other Authors: Pines, Maya
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chevy Chase, Md. : Howard Hughes Medical Institute, [2001]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.