The Microbial Models of Molecular Biology: From Genes to Genomes - Hardcover

Davis, Rowland H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195154363 ISBN 13: 9780195154368

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book explains the role of simple biological model systems in the growth of molecular biology. Essentially the whole history of molecular biology is presented here, tracing the work in bacteriophages in E. coli, the role of other prokaryotic systems, and also the protozoan and algal models - Paramecium and Chlamydomonas, primarily - and the move into eukaryotes with the fungal systems - Neurospora, Aspergillus and yeast. Each model was selected for its appropriateness for asking a given class of questions, and each spawned its own community of investigators. Some individuals made the transition to a new model over time, and remnant communities of investigators continue to pursue questions in all these models, as the cutting edge of molecular biological research flowed onward from model to model, and onward into higher organisms and, ultimately, mouse and man.

About this title

About the Author

Rowland H. Davis is at University of California, Irvine.

Review

"The strong point of this book is the richness and precision of the scientific information provided. Particularly for the period extending from the 1930's to the 1960's... Any historian of science intending to study an episode touched on in this book should in the future consult this book
first to obtain precise and sure scientific background for his or her study." Journal of the History of Biology

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0195154363
• ISBN 13: 9780195154368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352