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Author Piatigorsky, Joram.

Title Gene sharing and evolution : the diversity of protein functions / Joram Piatigorsky
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 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 -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary In Gene Sharing and Evolution Piatigorsky explores the generality and implications of gene sharing throughout evolution and argues that most if not all proteins perform a variety of functions in the same and in different species, and that this is a fundamental necessity for evolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-305) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Genetic regulation.
Proteins -- Evolution
Eye -- Molecular aspects
Crystalline lens.
Gene expression.
Gene Expression
Gene Expression Regulation
Eye Proteins -- genetics
Lens, Crystalline
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biochemistry.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Molecular Biology.
Gene expression
Crystalline lens
Genetic regulation
Proteins -- Evolution
Auge
Genregulation
Proteine
Evolution
Crystallines.
Evolutie.
Homologie.
Genen.
Genexpressie.
Taxonomie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674042124
0674042123