The implicit genome / edited by Lynn Helena Caporale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caporale, Lynn Helena, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Evolutionary genetics.

Genome.

Evolution, Molecular.

Immunity--genetics.

Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid--physiology.

Medical Subjects:

Genome.

Evolution, Molecular.

Immunity--genetics.

Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid--physiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discusses three interconnected themes: information can be implied, rather than explicit, in a genome; information can lead to focused and/or regulated changes in nucleotide sequences; and information that affects the probability of distinct classes of mutation has implications for evolutionary theory.

Contents:

Sequence-dependent properties of DNA and their role in function / Donald M. Crothers

Mutation as a phenotype / Errol C. Friedberg

Repeats and variation in pathogen selection / Christopher D. Bayliss and E. Richard Moxon

Tuning knobs in the genome: evolution of simple sequence repeats by indirect selection / David G. King, Edward N. Trifonov, and Yechezkel Kashi

Implicit information in eukaryotic pathogens as the basis of antigenic variation / J. Dave Barry

The role of repeat sequences in bacterial genetic adaptation to stress / Eduardo P.C. Rocha

The role of mobile DNA in the evolution of prokaryotic genomes / Garry Myers, Ian Paulsen, and Claire Fraser

Eukaryotic transposable elements: teaching old genomes new tricks / Susan R. Wessler

Immunoglobulin recombination signal sequences: somatic and evolutionary functions / Ellen Hsu

Somatic evolution of antibody genes / Rupert Beale and Dagmar Iber

Regulated and unregulated recombination of G-rich genomic regions / Nancy Maizels

The role of the genome in the initiation of meiotic recombination / Rhona H. Borts and David T. Kirkpatrick

Nuclear duality and the genesis of unusual genomes in ciliated protozoa / Carolyn L. Jahn

Editing informational content of expressed DNA sequences and their transcripts / Harold C. Smith

Alternative splicing: one gene, many products / Brenton R. Graveley

Imprinting: the hidden genome / Alyson Ashe and Emma Whitelaw.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-362) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770137-X

1-280-55917-9

9786610559176

0-19-534672-6

1-4294-0520-1

OCLC:

191924315