Lewin's Genes XI

Jocelyn E. Krebs, PhD-Associate Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage Jocelyn E. Krebs has been a member of the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alaska An-chorage since 2000. She received her B.A. in Biological Sciences from Bard College in 1991 and her PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California Berkeley in 1997. Her research focuses on the mechanisms by which DNA transactions such as transcription and repair are accomplished in the context of chromatin. Her teaching interests are in Molecular Biology (taught at the undergraduate, graduate, and first-year medical school levels), as well as the Molecular Biology of Cancer. Stephen T. Kilpatrick, PhD-Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Stephen T. Kilpatrick is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (UPJ). He received a B.S. in Biology for Eastern College (now Eastern University) and a PhD from the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Brown University. His research an teaching interests are in evolutionary molecular genetics. UPJ is an undergraduate degree-granting campus of the University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Kilpatrick regularly teaches undergraduate courses in majors introductory biology, genetics, evolution, mo-lecular genetics, and biostatistics. Prior to coauthoring the Second Edition of Lewin's Essential Genes, Dr. Kilpatrick has co-authored the test banks for the first edition and for Lewin's GENES VIII and GENES IX. He has also authored ancillaries and pedagogical materials for several introductory non-majors and majors biol-ogy and genetics textbooks. Elliott S. Goldstein, PhD-Associate Professor, Arizona State University Elliott S. Goldstein earned his B.S. in Biology from the University of Hartford (Connecticut) and his Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Minnesota, Department of Genetics and Cell Biology. Following this, he was awarded an N.I.H. Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Dr. Sheldon Penman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Leaving Boston, he joined the faculty at Arizona State University in Tempe, where he is an Asso-ciate Professor in the Cellular, Molecular and Biosciences program in the School of Life Sciences, and in the Honors Disciplinary Program. His research interests are in the area of molecular and developmental genetics of early embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. In recent years, he has focused on the Drosophila coun-terparts of the human proto-oncogenes jun and fos. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the under-graduate General Genetics course as well as the graduate level Molecular Genetics course.

Table of Contents:Part 1 Genes and Chromosomes; Chapter 1 Genes Are DNA; Chapter 2 Genes Encode RNAs and Polypeptides; Chapter 3 Methods in Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering; Chapter 4 The Interrupted Gene;Chapter 5 The Content of the Genome; Chapter 6 Genome Sequences and Gene Number; Chapter 7 Clusters and Repeats; Chapter 8 Genome Evolution; Chapter 9 Chromosomes; Chapter 10 Chromatin: Part 2 DNA Replication and Recombination; Chapter 11 Replication Is Connected to the Cell Cycle; Chapter 12 The Replicon: Initiation of Replication; Chapter 13 DNA Replication; Chapter 14 Extrachromosomal Replicons; Chapter 15 Homologous and Site-Specific Recombination; Chapter 16 Repair Systems; Chapter 17 Transposable Elements and Retroviruses; Chapter 18 Somatic Recombination and Hypermutation in the Immune System: Part 3 Transcription and Posttranscriptional Mechanisms; Chapter 19 Prokaryotic Transcription; Chapter 20 Eukaryotic Transcription; Chapter 21 RNA Splicing and Processing; Chapter 22 mRNA Stability and Localization; Chapter 23 Catalytic RNA; Chapter 24 Translation; Chapter 25 Using the Genetic Code: Part 4 Gene Regulation; Chapter 26 The Operon; Chapter 27 Phage Strategies; Chapter 28 Eukaryotic Transcription Regulation; Chapter 29 Epigenic Effects Are Inherited; Chapter 30 Regulatory RNA