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Transgenic organisms : risk assessment of deliberate release

Title: Transgenic organisms : risk assessment of deliberate release / edited by K. Wöhrmann, J. Tomiuk.
Publication: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, ©1993.

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Description

265 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in life sciences

Uniform Title

Advances in life sciences

Subject

Transgenic organisms > Risk assessment

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Expression and stability of foreign genes in animals and plants / P. Meyer -- P-elements of Drosophila : genomic parasites as genetic tools / W. Pinsker, W.J. Miller and S. Hagemann -- Bacterial gene transfer in the environment / M.G. Lorenz and W. Wackernagel -- Gene transfer from bacteria and heterologous viruses into cells of higher organisms / J.M. López-Pila and C. Scheler -- Gene transfer in plants as a potential agent of introgression / H.-R. Gregorius and W. Steiner -- Technologically modified genes in natural populations : some skeptical remarks on risk assessment from the view of population genetics / W. Gabriel -- Conditions for the establishment and persistence of populations of transgenic organisms / J. Tomiuk and V. Loeschcke -- Introduction of plants with special regard to cultigens running wild / D. Bartsch, H. Sukopp and U. Sukopp.
Potential ecological effects of escaped transgenic animals : lessons from past biological invasions / K.D. Adam, C.M. King and W.H. Köhler -- Aspects of the stability of the host-pathogen interaction of baculoviruses / J.A. Jehle, E. Fritsch and J. Huber -- Escherichia coli host/plasmid systems providing biological containment / K.H. Hofmann and T. Schweder -- Risk assessment of genetically modified plants introduced into the environment / A. Dietz -- Treatment of human disorders with gene therapy and its consequences for the human gene pool / Hj. Müller -- The release of microorganisms : ethical criteria / D. Mieth -- Epilogue / A. Sentker and J. Tomiuk.

ISBN

3764328347
9783764328344
0817628347
9780817628345

LCCN

93019390

OCLC

ocm28027342
28027342
SCSB-1994435

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Princeton University Library