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Under the leadership of Dr. Jeffrey C. Hall and Dr. Jay C. Dunlap, Advances in Genetics covers all genetic systems-from prokaryotic to human-with an e ...
Agrobacterium is the only cellular organism on Earth that is naturally capable of transferring genetic material between the kingdoms of life, from pro ...
This volume provides a thorough account of the structure and synthesis of microbial exopolysaccharides and of their widespread application across a br ...
Long defined as a core subject in the life sciences, biochemistry now allows us to control living systems in ways undreamt of even a decade ago. Its r ...
Mosquitoes and black flies are a constant threat to health and comfort, yet the modern chemical pesticides used to control them have cre ated serious ...
Silicon chemistry was initiated in 1823 by Berzelius who prepared elemental silicon. In many ways silicon was considered a typical opposite of carbon, ...
Historically, the field of hematopoietic growth factor research began with the work of Carnot and Deflandre-in 1906 they suggested that the rate of er ...
This NATO Advanced Research Workshop held 25-30 September, 1988 at the Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy, was the first international meeting of its kind to ...
Anyone who attempts to read genetics or epidemiology research literature needs to understand the essentials of biostatistics. This book, a revised new ...
Biology of Antarctic Fish presents the most recent findings on the biology of fish in the unique environment of the Antarctic ocean. At present the ye ...
This book summarizes the evidence from different African countries about the local impacts of climate change, and how farmers are coping with current ...
Complexity is an essential property of software systems that increases in a non-linear fashion with the size of the software system. In software engin ...
Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of the ways in which me ...
Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field that studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cul ...
Genetic-based animal biotechnology has produced new food and pharmaceutical products and promises many more advances to benefit humankind. These excit ...
Following an introductory analysis of each shared meta-technological space, the book examines the impact of biotechnology on how we understand informa ...
Biotechnology can deliver complex flavors both as fermentation products and single constituents. Recent developments in transgenic research have spawn ...
Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology.
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) represents one of the best-studied metabolic examples of an ecological adaptation to environmental stress. Well ove ...
Australian Saltmarsh Ecology presents the first comprehensive review of the ecology and management of Australian saltmarshes. The past 10 years in par ...
Throughout the world, milk and milk products are indispensable components of the food chain. Not only do individual consumers use liquid milk for beve ...
Historically the field of endocrine research has always been at the forefront of scientific endeavors. The investigators of these important breakthrou ...
Biotechnology is the major technology of the 21st century, yet few people realise how much it impacts on many aspects of human society. The defining a ...
