Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics Advance Access originally published online on February 3, 2006
Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics 2006 4(4):377-378; doi:10.1093/bfgp/eli008
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Book Review |
The Evolution of the Genome
Edited by T. Ryan Gregory
Elsevier Academic Press, Inc., London, UK; 2005; ISBN 0-12-301463-8; 768 pp.; £39.99; Hardback.
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The Evolution of the Genome is an ambitious project that aims to compress a wealth of information about all kinds of genomes, and combine this with a perspective on how genomes evolve. It is easy for volumes such as this to fall into the trap of becoming little more than an almanac of useful facts and figures and whilst this is something that the editor is amply qualified to do, the resulting tome is in fact a surprisingly interesting read, mixing evolutionary theory and conundrums, with insights into some of the mechanisms of genome change.
The book is split into five roughly symmetrical parts, each
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