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Genes in conflict : the biology of selfish genetic elements

Austin Burt (Author), Robert Trivers (Author)
Covering species from yeast to humans, Genes in Conflict is the first book to tell the story of selfish genetic elements, those continually appearing stretches of DNA that act narrowly to advance their own replication at the expense of the larger organism. As Austin Burt and Robert Trivers show, these selfish genes are a universal feature of life with pervasive effects, including numerous counter-adaptations

eBook, English, 2006
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2006