Exploring Genetic Mechanisms

This collaborative work should be of interest to students and professionals in the field of biochemistry, molecular biology and genetics. The book discusses efforts to map and sequence the genomes of several species, including humans, and illustrates the depth of understanding now provided by state-of-the-art techniques in molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics. The case studies examine in detail how genes operate in complex, multicomponent and interacting systems, applying these studies to a variety of living systems including viral, cellular, and organismal models. How genotypes and thus phenotypes of individual proteins and of whole cells and organisms can be altered is also explored.