Cell Movements vividly describes how complex movements can arise from the properties and behaviors of biological molecules. This second edition is updated throughout with recent advances in the field and has a completely revised and redrawn artwork program. The text is suitable for advanced undergraduates as well as for professionals wishing for an overview of this field.
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Dennis Bray
received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School before moving to the UK. Since then, he has been employed as a research scientist by the Medical Research Council, working at laboratories in London and in Cambridge. At various times he has served as visiting professor at the University of Otago at Washington University and at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests include neurobiology, cell biology, and the emerging field of computational cell biology. He is a co-author of the best-selling texts Molecular Biology of the Cell and Essential Cell Biology by Alberts et al.
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cell motility in a nutshell,
This review is from: Cell Movements: From Molecules to Motility (Paperback)
This is an introductory text to the field of cell motility and the cytoskeleton. It is written so that anyone who has taken some basic undergrad courses in biology should be able to pick it up and start learning. Because it is more of an introduction than an in-depth review of the entire field, it is mostly useful for getting a general idea of what is known and not known in cell biology, without going into excessive detail. The book is well written and fun to read, with tons of illustrations.
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This review is from: Cell Movements: From Molecules to Motility (Paperback)
This is an excellent and balanced overview of cell motility and the cytoskeleton.Thankfully there is a sense of perspective applied to the material, and the reader is spared the gory details of every last molecule or putative signalling pathway. There are copious elegant photomicrographs and line drawings.It is a pleasure to read.
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vertebrate tissue cells, eucaryotic flagella, actin cortex, eucaryotic cilia, flagellin molecules, mother centriole, crawling cell, nematode sperm, cell crawling, axonemal proteins, motile machinery, giant amoebae, contractile bundles, eucaryotic flagellum, intraflagellar transport, dynein molecules, ciliary dynein, leading margin, polar microtubules, primary cilium, cortical tension, daughter centrioles, conventional kinesin, plakin family, microtubule wall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cell Biol, Cell Sci, Cell Motil, Cell Dev, New York, Cell Res, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Garland Publishing, Princeton University Press, Protein Size, The Molecular Basis of Muscle Contraction New!
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Page numbers with an F refer to a figure, those with an FF refer to figures that follow consecutively; page numbers with a T refer to a table; page numbers with 'n' and a number afterward refer to a note in the page margin. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
vertebrate tissue cells, eucaryotic flagella, actin cortex, eucaryotic cilia, flagellin molecules, mother centriole, crawling cell, nematode sperm, cell crawling, axonemal proteins, motile machinery, giant amoebae, contractile bundles, eucaryotic flagellum, intraflagellar transport, dynein molecules, ciliary dynein, leading margin, polar microtubules, primary cilium, cortical tension, daughter centrioles, conventional kinesin, plakin family, microtubule wall Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cell Biol, Cell Sci, Cell Motil, Cell Dev, New York, Cell Res, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, Garland Publishing, Princeton University Press, Protein Size, The Molecular Basis of Muscle Contraction New!
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- Guidebook to the Cytoskeletal and Motor Proteins by Thomas Kreis on page 60, page 79, and page 205
- Random Walks in Biology by Howard C. Berg on page 16, and page 274
- Outlines & Highlights for Essential Cell Biology by Alberts (Cram101 Textbook Outlines) by Cram101 Textbook Reviews on page 75, and page 285
- Molecular Biology of the Cell 3E by Bruce Alberts on page 342, and page 348
- Essential Cell Biology by Bruce Alberts on page 75, and page 285
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- Physics in Molecular Biology by Kim Sneppen on page 7
- Genesis: The Evolution of Biology by Jan Sapp in Back Matter
- International Review Of Cytology, Volume 251: A Survey of Cell Biology (International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology) by Kwang W. Jeon on page 119
- Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature by David S. Goodsell in Back Matter
- The New Physics for the Twenty-First Century by Gordon Fraser on page 442
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