Full title: Gene sharing and evolution : the diversity of protein functions / Joram Piatigorsky.

Author/creator: Piatigorsky, Joram.

Date: 2007..

Call Numbers: N572.6/1

Record Identifier: 74VM8az0Oelg

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xv, 320 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm., 1. What is "gene sharing"? -- 2. Multifunctions and functional shifts : echos from the past -- 3. The elusive concept of a "gene" -- 4. Eyes and lenses : gene sharing by crystallins -- 5. The enigmatic "corneal crystallins" : putative cases of gene sharing -- 6. Gene sharing as a common event : many multifunctional proteins -- 7. Gene sharing during gene expression -- 8. Gene sharing as a dynamic evolutionary process : antifreeze proteins and hemoglobins -- 9. Gene duplication and the evolution of new functions -- 10. Gene sharing and systems biology : implications and speculations -- 11. Recapitulations : ambiguities and possibilities.

Publishers: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Permalink: https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM8az0Oelg

DDC: 572.6

MMS ID: 991000155929702626