To be purchased:
| Primary text: Hartwell's "Genetics: From Genes to Genomes." 3rd edition. | |
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The third edition no longer includes sections on model organisms for genetic research, but these are available online at the McGraw-Hill web site. Registration is simple. You will be assigned required readings from this book throughout the course. You should be sure that you have the third edition. I realize that it's expensive, but there is no CD and online content is readily accessible after registration. |
About the second edition: I am not allowed to use the second edition (the bookstore won't carry it), and I can't double-check everything against both editions, so there may be exam questions that depend on information that is in the third edition but not the second. I will assign readings that refer to the third edition. Not having the third edition will hurt you in this course. However, if you are going to use the second edition, and I know that some of you are, then you may find it useful to consult web pages from 2006. In particular, the 2006 syllabus lists reading assignments (most of which have not changed much) in the second edition.
Additional books.
Many of these books (and others) are available in online at NCBI (see www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books).
These are the books that I consult when preparing my lectures. Of course, you will not be responsible for anything in these books that is not also in the main text or explicitly mentioned in class.
- Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell. Garland.
2002 (4th edition).
This book is online at NCBI.
- Strachan and Read. Human Molecular Genetics 3 (HMG3) Wiley. 2004.
This excellent book is a nice supplement for human genetics. I consult it regularly and will present some material from it.
The second edition is available online at NCBI. Some copies of the third edition are available in the book store.
- Hawley and Walker, Advanced Genetic Analysis: Finding Meaning in a Genome. Blackwell 2003.
An excellent source for advanced genetic concepts. I use it especially for meiosis. Some copies are available in the book store.
- Griffiths et al., Introduction to Genetic Analysis. Freeman. Seventh Edition 2000.
Available online at NCBI. I use it especially for linkage and the Poisson distribution.
- Gibson and Muse, A Primer of Genome Science. Sinauer.
2004. (This is the Second edition; the first was 2002)
A source for Genomics.
- Mount, Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis.
CSHL Press. 2004. (This is the Second edition; the first was 2001)
Really the best book on Bioinformatics at this level. (The author is not a relative)
- Molecular Biology of the Gene. Watson et al. 2003 (5th edition).
- Weaver, Molecular Biology. WCB McGraw Hill. "2002" (2nd edition).
- Recombinant DNA: Genes and Genomes - A short course. 2007. Watson, Myers, Caudy and Witkowski.
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