Davidson, Eric H.

The regulatory genome : gene regulatory networks in development and evolution / Eric H Davidson. - San Diego : Academic Press, 2006. - xi, 289 p. : col. ill. ; 255 cm.


A successor to Eric Davidson's 2001 text, Genomic Regulatory Systems.

Includes reference and index.

The "regulatory genome" for animal development --
cis-Regulatory modules and the structure/ function basis of regulatory logic --
Development as a process of regulatory state specification --
Gene regulatory networks for development : What they are, how they work and what they mean --
Gene regulatory networks : the roots of causality and diversity in animal evolution.



Gene regulatory networks are the most complex, extensive control systems found in nature. This book explains the control of animal development in terms of structure/function relations of inherited regulatory DNA sequence, and the emergent properties of the gene regulatory networks composed of these sequences.

9780120 885633 (hbk.)


Genetic regulation.
Developmental genetics.
Cell Differentiation.

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