Modularity in Development and Evolution edited by Gerhard Schlosser and Gunter P. Wagner, Chicago, £24.50/$35, ISBN 0226738558 Reviewed by Mike Holderness
REGULOME: now there’s a word to conjure with. Now that sequencing a genome is a routine industrial process, we’re left with the interesting questions: what does it do, and how? That is, how is the expression of genes into proteins – and ultimately creatures – regulated? Hence the regulome.
And it is potentially rather complicated: 30,000 genes can interact in an absurd number of ways. Hence the interest in examining more manageable conceptual units of development or of evolution – “modules”.…
