The Society of Genes / / Martin Lercher, Itai Yanai.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Yanai, Itai,; Lercher, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.) :; 57 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Prologue --; 1. Evolving Cancer in Eight Easy Steps --; 2. How Your Enemies Define You --; 3. What’s the Point of Having Sex? --; 4. The Clinton Paradox --; 5. Promiscuous Genes in a Complex Society --; 6. The Chuman Show --; 7. It’s in the Way That You Use It --; 8. Theft, Imitation, and the Roots of Innovation --; 9. A Secret Life in the Shadows --; 10. Life’s Unwinnable War against Freeloaders --; Epilogue --; Further Reading --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674495081; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674495081
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martin Lercher, Itai Yanai.

Since Dawkins popularized the notion of the selfish gene, the question of how these selfish genes work together to construct an organism remained a mystery. Now, standing atop a wealth of new research, Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher—pioneers in the field of systems biology—provide a vision of how genes cooperate and compete in the struggle for life.