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The Molecular Biology of Insect Disease Vectors - A Methods Manual (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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The Molecular Biology of Insect Disease Vectors - A Methods Manual (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
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Only one generation ago, entomology was a proudly isolated
discipline. In Comstock Hall, the building of the Department of
Entomology at Cornell University where I was first introduced to
experimental science in the laboratory of Tom Eisner, those of us
interested in the chemistry of life felt like interlopers. In the
35 years that have elapsed since then, all of biology has changed,
and entomology with it. Arrogant molecular biologists and resentful
classical biologists might think that what has happened is a
hostile take-over of biology by molecular biology. But they are
wrong. More and more we now understand that the events were happier
and much more exciting, amounting to a new synthesis. Molecular
Biology, which was initially focused on the simplest of organisms,
bacteria and viruses, broke out of its confines after the initial
fundamental questions were answered - the structure of DNA, the
genetic code, the nature of regulatory genes - and, importantly, as
its methods became more and more generally applicable. The
recombinant DNA revo lution of the 1970s, the development of
techniques for sequencing macromolecules, the polymerase chain
reaction, new molecular methods of genetic analysis, all brought
molecular biology face to face with the infinite complexity and the
exuber ant diversity of life. Molecular biology itself stopped
being an isolated diScipline, pre occupied with the universal laws
of life, and became an approach to addressing fas cinating specific
problems from every field of biology.
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