Overview
- First overview of recent advances in the emerging field of marine genomics
- Multidisciplinary, addressing the impact of marine genomics on a broad range of disciplines in marine biology
- Explanations of basic principals and techniques in marine genomics (including a detailed glossary)
- Practical guide for newcomers to the field
Part of the book series: Advances in Marine Genomics (AMGE, volume 1)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Marine biology has always played an important role in biological research, being at the origin of many key advances. To a certain extent, the influence of marine biology on the biological sciences was overshadowed over a period of several years by the remarkable advances that were made using powerful model organisms from terrestrial environments. This situation is now changing again, however, due primarily to spectacular developments in genomic methodologies that have significantly accelerated research in a broad spectrum of marine biology disciplines ranging from biodiversity to developmental biology to biotechnology. The data generated by marine genomics projects have had an impact on questions as diverse as understanding planetary geochemical cycles, the impact of climate change on marine fauna and flora, the functioning of marine ecosystems, the discovery of new organisms and novel biomolecules, and investigation of the evolution of animal developmental complexity. This book represents the first attempt to document how genomic technologies are revolutionising these diverse domains of marine biology. Each chapter of this book looks at how these technologies are being employed in a specific domain of marine research and provides a summary of the major results obtained to date. The book as a whole provides an overview of marine genomics as a discipline and represents an ideal starting point for exploring this rapidly developing domain.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Marine Genomics
Editors: J. Mark Cock, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Catherine Boyen, Frédérique Viard
Series Title: Advances in Marine Genomics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8639-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8616-7Published: 11 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3207-0Published: 28 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8639-6Published: 27 April 2010
Series ISSN: 1879-8012
Series E-ISSN: 1879-8020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 399
Topics: Biochemistry, general, Biodiversity, Developmental Biology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management