Cat Genetics

Why do women live longer than men? Why do women have menopause? Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty, when suddenly their scores plummet? And does the female brain really exist? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex.

The domestic cat—your cat—has, from its evolutionary origins in Africa, been transformed in comparatively little time into one of the most successful and diverse species on the planet. Jonathan Losos, writing as both a scientist and a cat lover, explores how researchers today are unraveling the secrets of the cat, past and present, using all the tools of modern technology, from GPS tracking (you’d be amazed where those backyard cats roam) and genomics (what is your so-called Siamese cat . . . really?) to forensic archaeology.

From the Bestselling Author P.S. Power comes an exciting adventure that will change the world. Tor Baker is no ordinary boy. Hailing from a humble background in the deep woods, Tor has been granted a special scholarship from the king to study magic, and he's determined to make the most of it. But when he finds himself entangled in a web of secrets and schemes that have been building for years before his birth, Tor must rely on all of his magical skills and cunning to save himself and the kingdom. With intrigue, danger, and a hint of romance, this story will keep you guessing until the very ...

For decades after the identification of the structure of DNA, scientists focused only on genes, the regions of the genome that contain codes for the production of proteins. Other regions that make up 98 percent of the human genome were dismissed as "junk," sequences that serve no purpose. But researchers have recently discovered variations and modulations in this junk DNA that are involved with a number of intractable diseases. Junk DNA can play vital and unanticipated roles in the control of gene expression, from fine-tuning individual genes to switching off entire chromosomes.

You are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony. Until recently, we had thought our microbes hardly mattered, but science is revealing a different story, one in which microbes run our bodies and becoming a healthy human is impossible without them.

In a hidden lab, scientists combined the DNA of the modern day lynx and snow leopard with that of the prehistoric sabertooth cats. Then they upgraded the genetically engineered beast with algorithms so advanced it was as if the Saber Lynx itself had become an organic AI. What do you do when an insatiable predator keeps getting better, can smell things that are hundreds of miles away, and can recalculate simulations and optimal paths like a supercomputer, all while licking its chops? Saber Lynx has that answer. Recalculating...

From the Bestselling Author P.S. Power comes an Exciting Adventure that will change the world. A hand, pale and small, reached back and pulled him into the light… Yarrow Ull isn’t a good man. He’s done too much, hurt too many people to ever believe that about himself. Still, when he’s literally pulled into another world, while helping some criminals escape from prison, new things start to happen for him. He has, if he can make himself take it, a chance to become more than he ever thought he would be again. Now it’s his turn, possibly at least, to extend his own hand, and help pull...

When worlds collide, you either get crushed between them, or learn to be far more than anyone ever thought possible. Yarrow Ull, convicted murderer, prisoner and former elite soldier must make a new life for himself, and those who came with him, in a very different, very magical, reality. He has lessons to learn, but also valuable ideas to share. That is, if he lives that long. Because another reality is planning something which might be very bad for his new world. That's a thing that Yarrow Ull will not allow at all, if he can help it. If he has a choice.

Traducido del inglés al español (de España) Novela romántica paranormal militar de operaciones especiales con cambiaformas El Dr. Thaddeus Green sobrevivió hace mucho tiempo a un ataque de hombre pantera, lo que le convirtió en inmortal y en miembro del equipo I-Ops. Ha dedicado su vida a la genética y al servicio a su país. Después de que su ADN mutado provocara la muerte de su ser querido, juró no volver a permitir que nadie se acercara a su corazón. Por mucho que lo intente, Green es incapaz de detener la atracción mística hacia la rubia alta y de piernas largas, con una ...

Jusqu'à récemment, les scientifiques se sont contentés d'étudier la norme mâle et nous ont livré ainsi moins de la moitié de l'histoire de l'évolution. Cette immense zone d'ombre ne relève pas seulement du sexisme ou d'un problème intellectuel : c'est un sujet de société et de santé publique, puisque, du fait de notre méconnaissance des corps biologiquement femelles, nous savons moins bien soigner les femmes que les hommes. On ne pouvait pas en rester là.

Climate change, genetic change, or global disease: each Pandemic Mystery explores the impact of an international crisis on people around the world. In settings as diverse as the Amazon, Mozambique, and Nunavut, each crisis challenges different cultures to respond in ways that combine modern science and traditional knowledge. With an emphasis on our multicultural world, the solutions depend on cooperation across societies and world views. These are multi-threaded, science-based stories about people who overcome their differences to work together, showing humanity at its best as they solve an...

Earth died, but even in death she’s still got a lot to offer. She’s not going to hand those gifts over easily, though. Who would be crazy enough to abandon the comfort of the Atlantica Stations to go treasure hunting on a dying world? Enter Dante Slate, professional Plunderer, and the very best at what he does.

Clinging to life underground after a cataclysmic nuclear war, the remains of the human race are desperate for a way to change the past. Harnessing the power of an artificial wormhole, their only hope to avert global annihilation is to travel back in time and alter the discovery of nuclear fission. Humanity's future rests on the unlikely shoulders of Proteus. Born with a unique genetic mutation, scientists discover that he is the only one capable of surviving the ravages of time-travel. Proteus is sent backward to early 20th-century London...but Time doesn't want the past to change.

Another amazing series from the beloved and bestselling author... In the midst of a plague that has swept the world, when medical science has failed to protect the people, Hannah de Peyser must find a way to prevail... She's not the Damsel any longer, but if you aren't going to be a victim, you have to stand up and actually fight back. Sometimes that can take you into strange realms that most never even dream of seeing.

The language of genes has become common parlance. We know they make your eyes blue, your hair curly or your nose straight. The media tells us that our genes control the risk of cancer, heart disease, alcoholism or Alzheimer's. The cost of DNA sequencing has plummeted from billions of pounds to a few hundred, and gene-based advances in medicine hold huge promise. So we've all heard of genes, but how do they actually work?

Another amazing series from the beloved and bestselling author... Hannah isn't going to be a victim any longer. No matter what it takes. She will die first. She will kill. Will she become a hero though? When she's kidnapped, out of her bed, in the middle of the night, she's suddenly thrust into having to decide that one salient point. Is she going to think of herself first, or become more than she ever imagined, and truly become... The Damsel, no more.

From the incredible P.S. Power comes another stunning tale of adventure and intrigue! Hannah de Peyser, The Damsel, isn't one of those any longer. Tired of living life as a perpetual victim, she's become something very different. A fighter. A warrior, perhaps. Maybe even a hero. The one standing in the way... Which naturally means that The Enemy is choosing her as one of their main targets in the war to destroy all humankind. It isn't the role she would have chosen, but if they want a fight, they're looking in the right place. Because Hannah isn't planning to give up and let evil win. Not ...

Traducido del inglés al español (de España) Novela romántica paranormal de operaciones especiales militares con cambiaformas Cuando las lealtades se cuestionan y se forjan vínculos, los Immortal Ops se encuentran luchando una guerra para proteger no solo sus secretos, sino también sus vidas. Missy Carter lleva una vida bastante aburrida y con exceso de trabajo como analista de sistemas para el Departamento de Estado, o al menos, eso es lo que deja creer a todos. En realidad, su vida es cualquier cosa menos aburrida. Como Agente Sombra de Seguridad e Inteligencia Paranormal, lo ha ...

Powerful war machines of the far-future collide across a barren desert world in this post-apocalyptic debut novel from award-winning Australian author Cat Sparks. Seventeen-year-old Star and her sister Nene are orphans, part of a 13-wagon caravan of nomadic traders living hard lives travelling the Sand Road. Their route cuts through a particularly dangerous and unforgiving section of the Dead Red Heart, a war-ravaged desert landscape plagued by rogue semi-sentient machinery and other monsters from a bygone age.

An orphaned girl and her big dragon have a big problem: Will he ever fly? On the terraformed earth-colony Azureign, ecologically-friendly dragons were genetically engineered to carry riders. Their job is to help settlers deliver urgent items and send messages quickly across great distances. Shala is chosen to ride. Now her future depends on her dragon, Nizael.But Nizael may be too big to fly. Will she be able to coax him into flight before the dragon queens choose their mates and form their packs? Or will Shala and her dragon be loners forever?