Gene Sharing and Evolution : : The Diversity of Protein Functions / / Joram Piatigorsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Piatigorsky, Joram,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; 1. What Is "Gene Sharing"? --; 2. Multifunctions and Functional Shifts: Echos from the Past --; 3. The Elusive Concept of a "Gene" --; 4. Eyes and Lenses: Gene Sharing by Crystallins --; 5. The Enigmatic "Corneal Crystallins": Putative Cases of Gene Sharing --; 6. Gene Sharing as a Common Event: Many Multifunctional Proteins --; 7. Gene Sharing during Gene Expression --; 8. Gene Sharing As a Dynamic Evolutionary Process: Antifreeze Proteins and Hemoglobins --; 9. Gene Duplication and the Evolution of New Functions --; 10. Gene Sharing and Systems Biology: Implications and Speculations --; 11. Recapitulations: Ambiguities and Possibilities --; Glossary --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674042124; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674042124
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joram Piatigorsky.

In Gene Sharing and Evolution Piatigorsky explores the generality and implications of gene sharing throughout evolution and argues that most if not all proteins perform a variety of functions in the same and in different species, and that this is a fundamental necessity for evolution.