The Cell Cycle: Principles of Control

by David O. Morgan

The Cell Cycle is an account of the mechanisms that control cell division, beginning with a description of the phases and main events of the cell cycle and the main model organisms in cell-cycle analysis, including Xenopus, Drosophila, and yeasts. Later chapters focus on the molecules and mechanisms of the cell-cycle control system, including the cyclin-dependent kinase family of protein kinases, the cyclins that activate them, and the signaling molecules that regulate them, and discuss cell-cycle control in development and the failure of controls in cancer.

Genres: Science

297 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2006

About the author

David O Morgan graduated in animal physiology from the University of Calgary in 1980 and then did his doctoral and postdoctoral work in endocrinology with Richard A Roth and William J Rutter, and in virology with Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco, where he is now a Professor in the Departments of Physiology and Biochemistry & Biophysics.