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Science 2 January 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5654, p. 42
DOI: 10.1126/science.1094277
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Books
DEVELOPMENT:
The Tale Behind the Worm
A review by Robert K. Herman
In the Beginning Was the Worm Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite
by Andrew Brown
Columbia University Press, New York, 2003. 252 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-231-13146-1. Simon and Schuster, London. £15.99. ISBN 0-743-20716-5.
In this short narrative written for the general public, Brown tells the story of the work that led to our current understanding of the genome and development of the nematode C. elegans--and to the Nobel Prize awarded his principal protagonists, Bob Horvitz, Sydney Brenner, and John Sulston.
The reviewer is in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. E-mail: bob-h{at}umn.edu
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- M. Holterman, A. van der Wurff, S. van den Elsen, H. van Megen, T. Bongers, O. Holovachov, J. Bakker, and J. Helder (2006)
Mol. Biol. Evol.
23, 1792-1800
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