Burt, Austin.

Genes in conflict : the biology of selfish genetic elements / Austin Burt and Robert Trivers. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006. - viii, 602 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-575) and indexes.

1. Selfish genetic elements -- 2. Autosomal killers -- 3. Selfish sex chromosomes -- 4. Genomic imprinting -- 5. Selfish mitochondrial DNA -- 6. Gene conversion and homing -- 7. Transposable elements -- 8. Female drive -- 9. B chromosomes -- 10. Genomic exclusion -- 11. Selfish cell lineages -- 12. Summary and future directions.

0674017137 (cloth : alk. paper)

2005051219


Selfish genetic elements.
Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid.

QH447.8.S45 / B87 2006

572.86

2006 E-259 QU 470 / B973g 2006