Gene Sharing and Evolution : The Diversity of Protein Functions / Joram Piatigorsky.
Piatigorsky, Joram, author.
2009
QH450 .P53 2007eb
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Title Gene Sharing and Evolution : The Diversity of Protein Functions / Joram Piatigorsky.
Author Piatigorsky, Joram, author.
ISBN 9780674042124
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042124
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2007
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (336 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674042124 doi
Call Number QH450 .P53 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 572/.6
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.
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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

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