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Origin and Evolution of Telomeres
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Linear chromosomes represent an evolutionary innovation associated with the origin of eukaryotic cells. This book describes how linear chromosomes and primordial pathways for maintaining their terminal structures, telomeres, emerged in early eukaryotes.Telomeres, derived from the Greek meaning terminal part, were first described by Hermann Muller i
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- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Editors01
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Editors02
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Telomerase: Evolution, Structure and Function
- Chapter 2 Drosophila Telomeres: A Variation on the Telomerase Theme
- Chapter 3 Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres in Mammalian Cells
- Chapter 4 T-Loops, T-Circles and Slippery Forks
- Chapter 5 Molecular Diversity of Telomeric Sequences
- Chapter 6 Evolution of Telomere Binding Proteins
- Chapter 7 Telomeres: Guardians of Genomic Integrity or Double Agents of Evolution?
- Chapter 8 Evolution, Composition and Interrelated Functions of Telomeres and Subtelomeres: Lessons from Plants
- Chapter 9 Telomere Position Effect and the Evolution of the Genome
- Chapter 10 Cancer as a Microevolutionary Process Affecting Telomere Structure and Dynamics: The Contribution of Telomeres to Cancer
- Chapter 11 Prokaryotic Telomeres: Replication Mechanisms and Evolution
- Chapter 12 Mitochondrial Telomeres: An Evolutionary Paradigm for the Emergence of Telomeric Structures and Their Replication Strategies
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