Telomeres / edited by Titia de Lange, Vicki Lundblad, Elizabeth Blackburn.

Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, [2006], ©2006.

viii, 576 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A history of telomere biology -- The telomerase ribonucleoprotein particle -- Telomerase biochemistry and biogenesis -- Telomerase and human cancer -- Modeling cancer and aging in the telomerase-deficient mouse -- Telomerase deficiency and human disease -- Telomerase-independent maintenance of mammalian telomeres -- Telomerase-independent telomere maintenance in yeast -- Meiotic telomeres -- Telomere position effect : silencing near the end -- The structural biology of telomeres -- Budding yeast telomeres -- Mammalian telomeres -- Drosophila telomeres -- Ciliate telomeres -- Fission yeast telomeres -- Plant telomeres.

Copy 1. Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.