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Julian M. Crampton
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Division of Molecular Biology and Immunology, Wolfson Unit of Molecular Genetics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
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C. Ben Beard
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Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
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Christos Louis
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Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas and Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
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Only one generation ago, entomology was a proudly isolated discipline. In Comstock Hall, the building of the Department of Entomology at Cornell University where I was first introduced to experimental science in the laboratory of Tom Eisner, those of us interested in the chemistry of life felt like interlopers. In the 35 years that have elapsed since then, all of biology has changed, and entomology with it. Arrogant molecular biologists and resentful classical biologists might think that what has happened is a hostile take-over of biology by molecular biology. But they are wrong. More and more we now understand that the events were happier and much more exciting, amounting to a new synthesis. Molecular Biology, which was initially focused on the simplest of organisms, bacteria and viruses, broke out of its confines after the initial fundamental questions were answered - the structure of DNA, the genetic code, the nature of regulatory genes - and, importantly, as its methods became more and more generally applicable. The recombinant DNA revo lution of the 1970s, the development of techniques for sequencing macromolecules, the polymerase chain reaction, new molecular methods of genetic analysis, all brought molecular biology face to face with the infinite complexity and the exuber ant diversity of life. Molecular biology itself stopped being an isolated diScipline, pre occupied with the universal laws of life, and became an approach to addressing fas cinating specific problems from every field of biology.
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Basic Methods in Isolating, Cloning and Characterizing Nucleic Acids and their Products
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- Bruno Arcà , Charalambos Savakis
Pages 244-260
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- George Dimopoulos, Christos Louis
Pages 261-267
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- Philip W. Ingham, Trevor Jowett
Pages 268-282
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- Marcos A. González-Gaitán, Herbert Jäckle
Pages 283-294
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Genome Map** Techniques
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Front Matter
Pages 307-307
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- Vasantha Kumar, Anthony J. Cornel, Odette Mukabayire
Pages 337-345
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Insect Identification Techniques
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Front Matter
Pages 359-359
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- William C. Black IV, Nancy M. DuTeau
Pages 361-373
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- Susan M. Paskewitz, Frank H. Collins
Pages 374-383
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- Julian M. Crampton, Susannah M. Hill
Pages 384-398
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- Nicole Pasteur, Michel Raymond, François Rousset, Jean-Baptiste Bergé, Marcel Amichot, David Pauron et al.
Pages 399-419
Editors and Affiliations
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Division of Molecular Biology and Immunology, Wolfson Unit of Molecular Genetics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Julian M. Crampton
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Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
C. Ben Beard
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Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation of Research and Technology, Hellas and Department of Biology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
Christos Louis