The Origin and Evolution of Larval Forms

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Larvae represent one of the classic problems of evolutionary biology and may explain how new body plans originate. It has often been suggested that many entirely unique body plans first originated as retained larvae of ancestral organisms.
This book covers larval evolution and the developmental and evolutionary forces which shape and constrain them. Intended to contribute to a continuing dialectic, this book represents diverse opinions as well as manifold conclusions from an international team of leading zoologists and developmental biologists. Certain to challenge and intrigue, this book should be a part of the library of every evolutionary and developmental biologist interested in larvae and their significance.

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* Examines how vertebrate and invertebrate larvae develop and evolve
* Presents four themes: development, evolution, metamorphosis, and genetic mechanisms
* Chapters are organized into three sections: larval types and larval evolution, mechanisms of larval development and evolution, and larval functional morphology, physiology, and ecology

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Published by New Science Press, this text introduces general principles of protein structure, folding, and function, then goes beyond these basics to tackle the conceptual basis of inferring structure and function from genomic sequence. It is the first book in a series, Primers in Biology, employing a modular design in which chapters are divided into topics, each occupying one two-page spread that includes the relevant text, illustrations (in full color), definitions, and references.

The book has five chapters. The first is an introduction to the principles of protein structure and folding, with emphasis on proteins' biophysical properties. The second describes the principles of the main biochemical functions of proteins, namely binding and catalysis, with a short section on the properties of structural proteins. Chapter 3 covers the regulation of protein function, containing concise descriptions of all the regulatory mechanisms that operate on proteins, from pH to phosphorylation, with several sections on protein switches based on nucleotide hydrolysis. Chapter 4 introduces the principles whereby structure and function are deduced from sequence, with illustrative examples. The final chapter addresses how data on protein structure is gathered, interpreted, and presented.

Written for upper-level undergraduates and beginning graduate students, Protein Structure and Function will also be useful for working scientists needing an up-to-date introduction to the field.

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Quality and content of the book........2006-02-25

Generally,the book is excellent and the information is condensed in a simple language which can be understood easily. I also liked the proteins cartoons, the protein data bank number,fantastic! In additions, the book have links,words or terms defination and further references which proves to be helpful.

To the point introduction .......2005-10-09

It is great! Concise, to the point, with good illustrations, teaches you the essentials of protein structure and function in little time.

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Proteins: Structure and Function
David Whitford
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ASIN: 0471498947

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This text provides a superb introduction to the study of proteins, focusing on their structure and function. It covers the importance of proteins in biochemistry and introduces the concepts connected with protein folding in a user-friendly manner. Written specifically for undergraduates, it will provide them with the foundation they need in order to undertake more advanced study and analysis. The accompanying web site will include animated protein structures, problems and answers, and links to protein databases and other sites of interest.

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G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Structure, Function, and Ligand Screening (Methods in Signal Transduction)

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Comprehensive membrane receptor methodology compendium

G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Structure, Function, and Ligand Screening (Methods in Signal Transduction)

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G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Drug Discovery

ASIN: 0849327717

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With contributions from international experts in the fields of pharmacology, neuroscience, and biochemistry, this text provides an in-depth exploration of GPCRs. Coverage includes the screening of ligands for GPCRs, physiological and molecular characterizations of GPCRs, and structures of GPCRs and their ligands. The book explores current research issues in the post-genome era, particularly the identification of endogenous ligands that may lead to finding new hormones or neurotransmitters. It also discusses the determination of the tertiary structure of GPCRs, useful for understanding GPCR interactions and for the theoretical modeling of drugs.

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Comprehensive membrane receptor methodology compendium.......2001-12-03

Comprehensive compendium from leading scientists in the field of membrane receptor function and methodology. Appealing material is presented by Dr. Birdsall on receptor-radioligand binding analysis and ligand-receptor allosteric interactions. Other highlights are the chapters covering heterologous receptor expression techniques, receptor-ion channel methodology and receptor-structure analysis. A must have for those interested in this field.

Protein Function: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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Protein Function: A Practical Approach (Practical Approach Series)

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ASIN: 019963615X

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The analysis of protein function is a vital step in the characterization of any newly discovered protein. This new edition brings up to date the techniques used, and presents experimental procedures that can be performed in the average laboratory without recourse to highly specialised
equipment. The protocols will be of use to both experienced and novice researchers and are accompanied by background information, hints and tips, and troubleshooting guides to ensure successful elucidation of protein function.

Fundamentals of Protein Structure and Function

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Fundamentals of Protein Structure and Function
Engelbert Buxbaum
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Textbook for courses at both graduate and undergraduate level. Also for related courses in biochemistry, biochemistry lab, and methods. Contains comprehensive analytical description of structure, biophysics, and function of proteins. Also summarizes the techniques used to characterize protein and protein interactions.

Actin: Structure and Function in Muscle and Non-Muscle Cells

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Actin: Structure and Function in Muscle and Non-Muscle Cells
Cristobal C. DOS Remedios
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Annexins: Molecular Structure to Cellular Function (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)

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Annexins: Molecular Structure to Cellular Function (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit)

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Aspartic Proteinases: Structure, Function, Biology, and Biomedical Implications (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

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Aspartic Proteinases: Structure, Function, Biology, and Biomedical Implications (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology)

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Bacterial and Eukaryotic Porins: Structure, Function, Mechanism

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Bacterial and Eukaryotic Porins: Structure, Function, Mechanism

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This first book dedicated to the topic relates the known physiological functions of porins to their molecular structure and mechanism, as documented by various in vitro and in vivo methods, including the generation of null mutants in mice.
For the first time, it brings together biophysical evidence with studies performed in a cellular context, presenting a unified picture of the fundamental importance of porins for cellular function.
With 16 contributions by an interdisciplinary team of leading porin researchers, this reference is essential reading for every molecular or structural biologist with an interest in this essential protein family.

Biophysical Analysis of Membrane Proteins: Investigating Structure and Function

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Biophysical Analysis of Membrane Proteins: Investigating Structure and Function

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Meeting the need for a book on developing and using new methods to investigate membrane proteins, this is the first of its kind to present the full range of novel techniques in one resource. Top researchers from around the world focus on the physical principles exploited in the different techniques, and provide examples of how these can bring about important new insights.
Following an introduction, further sections discuss structural approaches, molecular interaction and large assemblies, dynamics and spectroscopies, finishing off with an exploration of structure-function relationships in whole cells.

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* Unlike most books on the topic, this one utilizes a "top down" approach--general concepts are presented first and details follow
* For the most user-friendly and clear style possible, formulas and equations are used when necessary, but mathematics does not overwhelm the presentation

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Now anyone with an interest in the physical sciences can master physics - without formal training or drowning in a sea of complicated formulas and equations.

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Not for beginners.......2006-10-07

The back of this book says simple enough for beginners, but IT IS NOT! I think if you have been over physics before this book "could" be helpful, but not for someone seeing this stuff for the first time. The refresher part only states some facts about pre-physics material, but doesn't explain why it is stated. The tests after each chapter ask about material outside the book that is not even covered. I will be taking this book back for a refund and getting the "for dummies" version.

Knowledgable author, horrible teacher.......2006-03-09

I have already studied physics, so I was able to follow this, but there is not a chance of understanding this without the previous knowledge. This is the kind of teaching strategy that is mostly memorizing and rote learning. You can "learn" what the book says, but you won't have a clue what it means. If you are only interested in spouting off physics facts to sound impressive, this book will do just fine. If you want to even begin to understand physics, you'll need to find a book that goes into the how and why of every phenomenon, rather than just stating that the phenomena exist.

Dymystifies Physics without Calculus.......2005-12-04

This book uses intermediate to advanced algebra and some (very little) pre - calculus to explain physics. It's great how they break it down so much - they start with the "what is a linear function" lesson, and go over real and complex numbers and graphing in case you forgot. Don't let the thinkness fool you - the first 7 chapters are spent getting you up to speed with the math that they use for the rest of the text. The way they explain the math is SO easy. However, if you are looking for a study guide with CALCULUS based explainations, this is not the book you need. Easy read, worth the money.

Tremendously helpful!.......2005-09-30

I am a premedical student in TN and obviously you realize I take very many science courses. As with any course, proper review and study time is necessary to make a good grade (Unless you're really smart.) This book was extremely helpful, especially the review chapters. I would recommend this to book to anyone who needs a little extra help, or even needs just a little review before taking a college level physics class. Highly recommended!

a bit thick if this isn't your main learning tool.......2004-10-28

I purchased this book because I was taking physics in high school and also wanted some extra help. But this book is a bit thick for that - it's even bigger than my school's textbook.

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Originally published alongside Ulysses in the pages of the legendary Little Review, Mary Olivier: A Life is an intimate, lacerating account of the ties between daughter and mother, a book of transfixing images and troubling moral intelligence that confronts the exigencies and ambiguities of freedom and responsibility with empathy and power. May Sinclair's finest novel stands comparison with the work of Willa Cather, Katherine Mansfield, and the young Virginia Woolf.

As a child, Mary Olivier's dreamy disposition and fierce intelligence set her apart from her Victorian family, especially her mother, "Little Mamma," whose dazzling looks cannot hide her meager love for her only daughter. Mary grows up in a world of her own, a solitude that leaves her free to explore her deepest passions, for literature and philosophy, for the austere beauties of England's north country, even as she continues to attend to her family. But in time the independence Mary values—at almost any cost—threatens to become a form of captivity itself.

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Jenny didn't believe that a big girl, nine next birthday, could really be afraid of funerals. She thought you were only trying to be tiresome. She said you could stop thinking about funerals well enough when you wanted. You did forget sometimes when nice things happened; when you went to see Mrs. Farmer's baby undressed, and when Isabel Batty came to tea. Isabel was almost a baby. It felt nice to lift her and curl up her stiff, barley-sugar hair and sponge her weak, pink silk hands. And there were things that you could do.

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Edwardian Theatre.......2002-08-02

May Sinclairs novel is a subtle and quite devastating disection of a females life in the Victorian era. Stifled by a rigid sense of what it is important for a girl to aspire to, the sensitve and independent character of Mary Olivier strives to find her own answers to lifes mysteries. She cannot ask anyone about literature, Arts or the more (for her) burning philosophical questions of meaning and substance. When she does she is early on taken to task by the very men she assumed would assist her. This is the key to the subtlety of the dialogue between Mary and her male friends.Considerable time is also taken up with Mary's relationship with her family members. This a satisfying book and the reader will be richly rewarded in following the life of Mary Olivier.

A superb (if flawed) modernist Bildungsroman.......2002-07-05

MARY OLIVIER: A LIFE came out serialized in the same issues of THE LITTLE REVIEW as James Joyce's ULYSSES, and has never received its proper due for its achievement. part of this may also stem that it was written ten to fifteen years after the great spate of Edwardian parricidal Bildungsromans, which include Joyce's PORTRAIT, Lawrence's SONS AND LOVERS, Maugham's OF HUMAN BONDAGE, Bennett's CLAYHANGER and Butler's THE WAY OF ALL FLESH. Yet MARY OLIVIER deserves at the very least to be in such fine company. May Sinclair herself coined the term "stream-of-consciousness" to describe the technique of Dorothy Richardson, and she uses this technique herself here in recounting the life oif a young woman from the Victorian Sixties to late middle age. The results are astonishing: it may remind you a bit of Joyce's PORTRAIT, and a bit of Katherine Mansfield's Burnell Family stories, but it's also like neither of them. Mary and her brothers must revoilt against their father's jealous possessiveness of his wife and their mother's sweet manipulativeness and doctrinaire piety, but they can never bring themselves to fully hate them. they realize that their parents are also actual people, flawed and yearning to love, and Sinclair outstrips many other writers of Bildungsromans by giving the parents their due. The last third of the book (after the father dies) is a bit tedious, but the novel is a real triumph, especially in its presentation of the way children think about their parents, the world around them, and even philosophical matters.

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MARY OLIVIER: A LIFE
MAY SINCLAIR
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Mary Olivier: A Life (Virago Modern Classics)

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Mary Olivier: A Life (Virago Modern Classics)
May Sinclair
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The Victorian woman reader in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: self-stimulation, intellectual freedom, and escape.(Critical Essay): An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920

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The Victorian woman reader in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: self-stimulation, intellectual freedom, and escape.(Critical Essay): An article from: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
Cheryl A. Wilson
Manufacturer: ELT Press
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This digital document is an article from English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, published by ELT Press on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 7219 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Victorian woman reader in May Sinclair's Mary Olivier: self-stimulation, intellectual freedom, and escape.(Critical Essay)
Author: Cheryl A. Wilson
Publication: English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: ELT Press
Volume: 46 Issue: 4 Page: 365(17)

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