Table of Contents:
  • A glance at evolution through the genomic window / Eugene D. Sverdlov
  • Complex genome comparisons: problems and approaches / Natalia E. Broude and Eugene D. Sverdlov
  • A brief introduction to primate evolution / Hans Zischler, Christian Roos and Gerhard Hunsmann
  • How different is the human genome from the genomes of the great apes? / Eugene V. Nadezhdin and Eugene D. Sverdlov
  • Retroviruses, their domesticated relatives and other retroinvaders: potential genetic and epigenetic mediators of phenotypic variation / Eugene D. Sverdlov
  • Genomic distributions of human retroelements / Dixie L. Mager, Louie N. van de Lagemaat and Patrik Medstrand
  • Influence of human endogenous retroviruses on cellular gene expression / Christine Leib-Mösch, Wolfgang Seifarth and Ulrike Schön
  • Genome-wide search for human specific retroelements / Yuri B. Lebedev
  • Genome-wide analysis of human gene expression: application to the expression of human endogenous retroviruses / Tatyana V. Vinogradova
  • Phylogeny of human endogenous and exogenous retroviruses / Aris Katzourakis and Michael Tristem
  • Evolutionary aspects of human endogenous retroviral sequences (HERVs) and disease / Jonas Blomberg, Dmitrijs Ushameckis and Patric Jern.