Eugene D. Sverdlov

Retroviruses and Primate Genome Evolution (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the role of the obligate inhabitants of all vertebrate genomes-endogenous retroviruses, especially those emerged in genomes rather recently, during primate evolution. It specially focuses on human endogenous retroviruses as well as other retroelements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498713801
• Artikelnr.: 57418274

Autorenporträt

Sverdlov, Eugene D.

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Glance at Evolution through the Genomic Window 2. Complex Genome
Comparisons: Problems and Approaches 3. A Brief Introduction to Primate
Evolution 4. How Different Is the Human Genome from the Genomes of the
Great Apes? 5. Retroviruses, Their Domesticated Relatives and Other
Retroinvaders: Potential Genetic and Epigenetic Mediators of Phenotypic
Variation 6. Genomic Distributions of Human Retroelements 7. Influence of
Human Endogenous Retroviruses on Cellular Gene Expression 8. Genome-Wide
Search for Human Specific Retroelements 9. Genome-Wide Analysis of Human
Gene Expression: Application to the Expression of Human Endogenous
Retroviruses 10. Phylogeny of Human Endogenous and Exogenous Retroviruses
11. Evolutionary Aspects of Human Endogenous Retroviral Sequences (HERVs)
and Disease