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Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on December 11, 2006
Journal of Heredity 2007 98(1):97-98; doi:10.1093/jhered/esl047
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Book Review

Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis: An Introduction, 5th ed.

Terence A. Brown
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. 2006. 386 pp. $69.95.

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The textbook that became almost a classic in the field of molecular genetics and gene cloning deserved to be revised and published in this fifth edition. It is always curious to understand how such a book can survive in the ocean of special literature that has flooded the shelves of bookstores and libraries over the last 2 decades and, of course, observe which ones are written by the successful authors. The book's first edition emerged as an introductory text in 1986—at the time when recombinant DNA technology had matured and dominated, whereas new breakthrough techniques, like PCR and large-scale programs like the Human Genome Project were only at a conceptual stage. And only 5 years passed since Terry Brown had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Michael N. Romanov

Genetics Division, CRES—Conservation and Research for Endangered Species, Zoological Society of San Diego, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Conservation Research, 15600 San Pasqual Valley Road, Escondido, CA 92027-7000

e-mail: mromanov@sandiegozoo.org


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