Research Catalog

Title

Molecular zoology : advances, strategies, and protocols / edited by Joan D. Ferraris and Stephen R. Palumbi.

Publication

New York : Wiley-Liss, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• Ferraris, Joan D.
• Palumbi, Stephen R.
• American Society of Zoologists.

Description

xxx, 580 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm

Subject

• Molecular biology > Methodology
• Zoology, Experimental
• Molecular genetics > Methodology

Note

• Developed from a January '95 American Society of Zoologists three-day symposium on "Molecular approaches to zoology & evolution."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Biological Databases on the Internet / Judith A. Blake and Carol J. Bult -- 2. Parametric Bootstrapping in Molecular Phylogenetics: Applications and Performance / John P. Huelsenbeck, David M. Hillis and Robert Jones -- 3. Molecular Approaches and the Growth of Phylogenetic Biology / Wayne Paul Maddison -- 4. Characterization of Genetic Structure and Genealogies Using RAPD-PCR Markers: A Random Primer for the Novice and Nervous / Richard K. Grosberg, Donald R. Levitan and Brenda B. Cameron -- 5. Macrospatial Genetic Structure and Speciation in Marine Taxa with High Dispersal Abilities / Stephen R. Palumbi -- 6. Molecular Approaches to the Study of Marine Biological Invasions / Jonathan Geller -- 7. Application of Molecular Methods to the Assessment of Genetic Mating Systems in Vertebrates / Robert C. Fleischer --
• 8. Strategies for Finding and Using Highly Polymorphic DNA Microsatellite Loci for Studies of Genetic Relatedness and Pedigrees / Joan E. Strassman, Carlos R. Solis, John M. Peters and David C. Queller -- 9. PCR-Based Cloning Across Large Taxonomic Distances and Polymorphism Detection: MHC as a Case Study / Wayne K. Potts -- 10. Strategies for Cloning Developmental Genes Using Closely Related Species / Billie J. Swalla -- 11. Using Nematode Vulva Development to Model the Evolution of Developmental Systems / Ralf J. Sommer and Paul W. Sternberg -- 12. The Analysis of Lineage-Specific Gene Activity During Sea Urchin Development / R. Andrew Cameron, Robert W. Zeller, James A. Coffman and Eric H. Davidson -- 13. Evolutionary Approaches to Analyzing Development / Rudolf A. Raff and Ellen M. Popodi --
• 14. Revealing Homologies Between Body Parts of Distantly Related Animals by in Situ Hybridization to Developmental Genes: Amphioxus versus Vertebrates / Linda Z. Holland, Peter W. H. Holland and Nicholas D. Holland -- 15. Evolutionary Transposition and the Vertebrate Hox Genes: Comparing Morphology to Gene Expression Boundaries with in Situ Hybridization / Ann Campbell Burke and Craig E. Nelson -- 16. Lineage Analysis Using Retroviral Vectors / Jeffrey A. Golden and Constance L. Cepko -- 17. Osmoregulatory Gene Expression and Implications for Evolutionary Studies: Strategies in Identification of the Osmotic Response Element (ORE) / Joan D. Ferraris and Arlyn Garcia-Perez -- 18. A Molecular Approach to the Selectionist/Neutralist Controversy / Dennis A. Powers and Patricia M. Schulte -- 19. Molecular Studies of the Sequential Expression of a Respiratory Protein During Crustacean Development / Nora Barclay Terwilliger and Gregor Durstewitz --
• 20. The Role of P450[subscript arom] in Sex Determination of Prototheria and Nonmammalian Vertebrates / Pancharatnam Jeyasuria, Rosemary Jagus, Valentine Lance and Allen R. Place -- 21. Molecular Approaches to Control of Reproductive Behavior and Sexual Differentiation of Brain in Rodents / Margaret M. McCarthy -- 22. Transgenic Fish: Ideal Models for Basic Research and Biotechnological Applications / Thomas T. Chen, Jenn-Kan Lu, Michael J. Shamblott, Clara M. Cheng, Chun-Mean Lin, Jane C. Burns, Renate Reimschuessel, Nagaraj Chatakondi and Rex A. Dunham.

ISBN

• 0471144495 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0471144614 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

96000208

OCLC

ocm34149809

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries