Gebundenes Buch

Epigenetic Shaping of Sociosexual Interactions: From Plants to Humans

Volume 86

Herausgegeben: Yamamoto, Daisuke

Beschreibung

Epigenetic Shaping of Sociosexual Interactions: From Plants to Humans is the first attempt to interpret the higher social functions of organisms. This volume covers an extraordinarily wide range of biological research and provides a novel framework for understanding human-specific brain functions.

Autor

Daisuke Yamamoto was graduated from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1976, and earned his PhD in 1981 from Hokkaido University. He joined Mitsubishi Kasei Institute of Life Sciences as a researcher in 1980, and worked there until 1999. For two years from 1981, he was trained as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University Medical School, USA. In 1999, he was appointed as a professor in Waseda University. He assumed the current professor post at Tohoku University in April 2005, and became a distinguished professor in 2011. Yamamoto specializes in behavior genetics, particularly of fruit fly mating behaviour.

Produktdetails

• Advances in Genetics Volume 86
• Verlag: Academic Press / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2013-0-12637-2
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 651g
• ISBN-13: 9780128002223
• ISBN-10: 0128002220
• Artikelnr.: 41248971

Rezensionen

Praise for previous volumes in the series:
"Outstanding both in variety and in the quality of its contributions." -Nature

"Can be highly recommended to geneticists, and biologists in general...will prove to be of high importance for the development of the science of genetics." --Science