BookM.R.S. Rao, editor.
Summary: This contributed volume offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the various aspects of long non-coding RNAs and discusses their emerging significance. Written by leading experts in the field, it motivates young researchers around the globe, and offers graduate and postgraduate students fascinating insights into genes and their regulation in eukaryotes and higher organisms.
Contents:
1. History, discovery, and classification of IncRNAs
2. Long noncoding RNA: genome organization and mechanism of action
3. From heterochromatin to long noncoding RNAs in Drosophila: expanding the arena of gene function and regulation
4. Long noncoding RNAs in the Yeast S. cerevisiae
5. Long noncoding RNAs in plants
6. Long noncoding RNAs in mammalian development and diseases
7. Long noncoding RNAs in cancer and therapeutic potential
8. Long noncoding RNAs in pluripotency of stem cells and cell fate specification
9. Understanding the role of IncRNAs in nervous system development
10. Technological developments in IncRNA biology.