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Title:

The genes we share with yeast, flies, worms, and mice : new clues to human health and disease / a report from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Publisher:

Howard Hughes Medical Institute,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

100 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Genomes.--Popular works.
Gene mapping.--Popular works.
Human gene mapping.--Popular works.
Medical genetics.--Popular works.

Other Authors:

Pines, Maya,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Notes:

Cover title. "This is the eighth in a series of reports about biomedical science"--Inside front cover. Editor, Maya Pines--P. 100. Poster in pocket (54 x 41 cm. folded to 27 x 21 cm.)

Contents:

Discovering what the genes in a living cell do-starting with yeast / by Maya Pines -- Unexpected rewards from our similarity to fruit flies / by Gary A. Taubes -- The first animal to have its entire genome sequenced: C. elegans / by Maya Pines -- Treasures await those who study our closest relative among model organisms: the mouse / by Stephen S. Hall -- Shuttling between species to make sense of the human genome / by Maya Pines -- Poster: human disease genes that are found in flies, worms, and yeast.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46596966

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

W7AX771 -- Urban Campus (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)