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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452506403321

Autore

Migeon Barbara R

Titolo

Females are mosaics : X inactivation and sex differences in disease / / Barbara R. Migeon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-19-934366-7

0-19-992754-5

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

616/.042

Soggetti

Mosaicism

X chromosome - Abnormalities

Genetic disorders

Sex factors in disease

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sex differences in disease -- Evolution of the human sex chromosomes and a portrait of the human X -- X chromosome dosage compensation : an overview -- The discovery of X chromosome inactivation -- Experimental models for X inactivation studies -- Theme 1 : the initial step : creating the active and inactive X -- Theme 2 : subsequent steps : spreading and maintaining inactivation -- Variations 1 : evolution of the X inactivation center -- Variations 2 : stability of the inactive X -- Variations 3 : choice of active X -- The single active X -- Mosaicism -- Epimutations, chromatin disorders and sex differences in phenotype -- Determinants of female phenotypes.

Sommario/riassunto

Women can be described as genetic mosaics because they have two distinctly different types of cells throughout their bodies. Unlike males, who have one X chromosome, females have two X chromosomes in every cell. Much has been written about the Y chromosome and its role in inducing maleness. This is the only book about the X chromosome as a key to female development and the role of X-related factors in the etiology of sex differences in human disease. This new edition reflects



research advances from the six years since the widely praised first edition. New advances include knowledge of species

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202749403316

Autore

Raats P. A. C

Titolo

Environmental Mechanics: Water, Mass, and Energy Transfer in Biosphere

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : American Geophysical Union, 2002

ISBN

1-118-66865-0

Disciplina

631.4/32

Soggetti

Agriculture

Earth & Environmental Sciences

Agriculture - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Dedication to John Robert Philip AO FAA FRS -- The Editors -- Preface -- The Editors -- Introduction -- Contributions to Environmental Mechanics: Introduction -- P A. C. Raats, D. E. Smiles, and A. W. Warrick -- John Philip -- A Convergence of Paths That Culminated in John Philip's 1995 Video Recorded History of Hydrology Interview -- Stephen ]. Burges -- Simplification Plus Rigorous Analysis: The Modus Operandi of John Philip -- James C. I. Dooge -- Infiltration Theory -- Infiltration Under Constant Head and Falling Head Conditions -- D. E. Elrick, R. Angulo-Jaramillo, D. Fallow, W. D. Reynolds, and G. W. Parkin -- Capillary Rise of Water Into Soil as Described by a Solution of Burgers' Equation -- D. Swartzendruber -- Effect of Gravity and Model Characteristics on Steady Infiltration From Spheroids -- A. W. Warrick and Dani Or -- The Seepage Exclusion Problem for Tunnel Cavities in the Saturated Capillary Fringe -- E. G. Youngs -- Column Flow in Stratified Soils and Fingers in Hele-Shaw Cells: A Review -- J.-Yves Parlange, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Ling Li, D. A. Barry, and Frank Stagnitti -- Wetting Front Evolution in Randomly



Heterogeneous Soils -- Alexandre M. Tartakovsky, Shlomo P Neuman, and Daniel M. Tartakovsky -- Swelling Soils and Solute Transport -- On Hydrostatics and Matristatics of Swelling Soils -- C. D. Grant, P H. Groenevelt, and G. H. Bolt -- Water and Solute Transfer in Porous Media -- David E. Smiles -- Equilibrium Moisture Profiles in Consolidating, Sulfidic, Coastal Clay Soils -- lan White -- Solute Transport in Infiltration-Redistribution Cycles in Heterogeneous Soils -- S. C. Lessoff, P Indelman, and G. Dagan -- Analytical Solutions for Two-Dimensional Solute Transport With Velocity-Dependent Dispersion -- Philip Broadbridge, R. Joel Moitsheki, and Maureen P Edwards -- Stability Criteria for the Vertical Boundary Layer Formed by Throughflow Near the Surface of a Porous Medium -- C. J. van Duijn, G. J. M. Pieters, R. A. Wooding and A. van der Ploeg -- Injection of Dilute Brine and Crude Oil/Brine/Rock Interactions -- Guoqing Tang and Norman R. Morrow -- General Aspects of Water Flow in Soils -- Multidimensional Flow of Water in Unsaturated Soils -- P. A. C. Raats -- Effect of Temperature on Capillary Pressure -- Steven A. Grant and Jbrg Bachmann -- Soil Water Hysteresis Prediction Model Based on Theory and Geometric Scaling -- Randel Haverkamp, Paolo Reggiani, PeterJ. Ross, andJean-Yves Parlange -- How Useful are Small-Scale Soil Hydraulic Property Measurements for Large-Scale Vadose Zone Modeling? -- Jan W. Hopmans, Don R. Nielsen, and Keith L. Bristow -- The Role of Estimation Error in Probability Density Function of Soil Hydraulic Parameters: Pedotop Scale -- Miroslav Kutflek, Miroslav Krejca, and Jana Kupcov4-Vlasimska -- Searching Below Thresholds: Tracing the Origins of Preferential Flow Within Undisturbed Soil Samples -- Milena Cfslerova, Tomsg Vogel, Jana Votrubova, and Alice Robovska -- Effect of Forced Convection on Soil Water Content Measurement With the Dual-Probe Heat-Pulse Method -- GerardJ. Kluitenberg andJoshua L. Heitman -- Micrometeorology -- Momentum Transfer to Complex Terrain -- John Finnigan -- Diffusion of Heavy Particles in a Turbulent Flow -- M. R. Raupach -- A Simple One-Dimensional Model of Coherent Turbulent Transfer in Canopies -- Michael D. Novak -- The Concept of the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum and Applications -- M. B. Kirkham -- Rootzone Processes, Tree Water-Use and the Equitable Allocation of Irrigation Water to Olives -- Steve Green, Brent Clothier, Horst Caspari, and Sue Neal.