BOOK REVIEW
Campbell, A., Anderson, W.W, Jones, E.W. (ed.): Annual Review of Genetics. Volume 38. - Annual
Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, California, 2004, 878 pp. ISBN 0-8243-1238-4.
The readers of Biologia Plantarum will be mainly
interested in the reviews: The genetics of maize evolution
(J. Doebley), Light signal transduction in higher plants
(M. Cheng and C. Funkhauser), Chlamydomonas
reinahardtii in the landscape of pigments (A.R.
Grossman et al.), Recombination proteins in yeast (B.O.
Krogh and L.S. Symington), Genetic models in
pathogenesis (E. Pradel and J.J. Ewbank), Mechanisms of
pattern formation in plant embryogenesis (V. Willemsen
and B. Scheres), and Species specificity in pollen-pistil
interactions (R. Swanson et al.).
Other topics covered in this Volume: Mobile group II
introns, Retroviral host genetics, Genetics of
geochemistry, Cde14 phosphates, Developmental gene
amplification, Function of nuclear architecture,
Melanocytes and microphthalmia transcription factor
network, Polycomb/trithhorax and cellular memory,
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Repair of endogenous DNA damage, Mitochondria of
protists, Genomic analysis of microbial communities,
Genomic imprinting and kinship, Gene duplication and
divergence, Genetic analysis from ancient DNA, Prion
genetics, Proteolysis as a regulatory mechanism, MAP
kinase signalling specificity, iRNA transcription in E.
coli, Bacterial genome structure, and Adenin-associated
virus a recombinant vectors. The reviews include
extensive references to the literature and are written in
such a way, as to be valuable both to advanced students
and scientist.
The Annual Review of Genetics is published since
1967 by a non-profit scientific publisher. Thus the price
of this volume (especially the Individual) is
comparatively low compared to other similar
publications. The Annual Review of Genetics is online at
http://genet.annualreviews.org
T. GICHNER (Praha)