Natural genetic engineering and natural genome editing /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Symposium on Natural Genetic Engineering and Natural Genome Editing Salzburg, Austria
Other Authors: Witzany, Günther
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Boston, Mass. : Published by Blackwell Pub. on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2009.
Series:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ; v. 1178.
Subjects:
Genetic engineering > Congresses.
Evolutionary genetics > Congresses.
Genomes > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • A perspective on natural genetic engineering and natural genome editing. Introduction
  • Revisiting the central dogma in the 21st century
  • Deconstructing the dogma: a new view of the evolution and genetic programming of complex organisms
  • On the origin of cells and viruses: primordial virus world scenario
  • The great billion-year war between ribosome- and capsid-encoding organisms (cells and viruses) as the major source of evolutionary novelties
  • Learning from bacteria about natural information processing
  • The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis: a key role for viruses in the emergence of eukaryotes from a prokaryotic world environment
  • Cell-cell channels, viruses, and evolution: via infection, parasitism, and symbiosis toward higher levels of biological complexity
  • Impact of RNA virus infection on plant cell function and evolution
  • Hen or egg?: some thoughts on tunneling nanotubes
  • Evolution of genes and organisms: the tree/web of life in light of horizontal gene transfer
  • The natural genetic engineering of polydnaviruses
  • Friendly viruses: the special relationship between endogenous retroviruses and their host
  • Natural genetic engineering of hepatitis C virus NS5A for immune system counterattack
  • The fragmented gene
  • The source of self: genetic parasites and the origin of adaptive immunity
  • Cellular genes derived from Gypsy/Ty3 retrotransposons in mammalian genomes
  • Noncoding RNAs: persistent viral agents as modular tools for cellular needs
  • APOBEC3 proteins inhibit LINE-1 retrotransposition in the absence of ORF1p binding
  • Epigenetic regulation of Mammalian genomes by transposable elements
  • Are there epigenetic controls in Trypanosoma cruzi?
  • Conceptual and methodological biases in network models
  • No genetics without epigenetics? No biology without systems biology?

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