Books written by Rob DeSalle

  • Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach
    Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach

    ... to 52 phyla – bacteria, which can be transmitted horizontally (from environment) and/or vertically (from mother), and sometimes take up to 35% of the holobiont biomass (Reiswig, 1981; Schmitt et al., 2008; Webster et al., 2010).

  • Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth
    Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth

    The UC Berkeley lab of the late Allan Wilson was the early Mecca for applying molecular techniques to the study of evolution. Always on the cutting edge because of the sheer number of people there who had keen interests in phylogeny, ...

  • Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
    Our Senses: An Immersive Experience

    The modern unraveling of the real nature of how genes control complex phenotypes probably started in Allan Wilson's lab at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s. Wilson and his colleagues recognized that, although humans ...

  • Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You
    Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You

    12:2317–2323. Robertson, Charles E., et al. 2013. “Culture-Independent Analysis of Aerosol Microbiology in a Metropolitan Subway System.” Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79, no. 11:3485–3493. Rodrigues, Hoffmann A., et al. 2014.

  • Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You
    Welcome to the Microbiome: Getting to Know the Trillions of Bacteria and Other Microbes In, On, and Around You

    (2010), Honda and Littman (2012), Cho and Blaser (2012), Falush et al. (2003), Tamboli et al. (2004), and the work of Blaser (2006), who uses Helicobacter pylori to examine the complexity of microbial interactions in our bodies.

  • 颠覆侏罗纪公园

    颠覆侏罗纪公园

  • Phylogenomics: A Primer
    Phylogenomics: A Primer

    ... 201 taxonomic congruence, 200–201 total evidence supermatrices approach, 201–202 T-Rex, 210 neighbor joining, ... for comparative genomics, 337–338 Venter, J. Craig, 6 VNTR, see Variable number of tandem repeat region Wallace, ...

  • Phylogenomics: A Primer
    Phylogenomics: A Primer

    Hendricks, Sarah, Anderson, Eric C, Antao, Tiago et al. (2018) Recent advances in conservation and population genomics data analysis. Evol. Appl. 11(8), 1197–1211. Hernandez RD, Kelley JL, Elyashiv E et al.

  • A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it
    A Natural History of Color: The Science Behind What We See and How We See it

    Finding color in stars and light, examining the system of classification that determines survival through natural selection, studying the arrival of color in our universe and as a fulcrum for philosophy, DeSalle’s brilliant A Natural ...

  • The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World: Or, How to Build a Dinosaur
    The Science of Jurassic Park and the Lost World: Or, How to Build a Dinosaur

    Using the motion picture Jurassic Park as a starting point, DeSalle and Lindley discuss how possible it would actually be to clone dinosaurs from DNA found in prehistoric blood and what problems might be encountered in creating a complete ...

  • Distilled: A Natural History of Spirits
    Distilled: A Natural History of Spirits

    “Hans Reisetbauer: Austrian Superstar of Craft Distilling.” 2021. https://www.flaviar ... The Art of Distilling, Revised and Expanded: An Enthusiast's Guide to the Artisan Distilling of Whiskey, Vodka, Gin, ...

  • Understanding Race
    Understanding Race

    As this book shows, however, none of those biological variations can be understood in terms of discrete races, which do not actually exist as definable entities.

  • Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications
    Molecular Ecology and Evolution: Approaches and Applications

    This book will serve as an important textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and as a key reference work for researchers.

  • Our Senses: An Immersive Experience
    Our Senses: An Immersive Experience

    This splendidly accessible book explores the most intriguing findings of this research.

  • Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics
    Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics

    Featuring a number of high-profile researchers, this volume introduces the use of molecular genetics in conservation biology and provides a historical perspective on the opportunities and challenges presented by new technologies.

  • The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs
    The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

    In this delightfully accessible book, the authors present the first full, step-by-step account of the evolution of the brain and nervous system.

  • Key Transitions in Animal Evolution
    Key Transitions in Animal Evolution

    Tackling one of the most difficult and delicate of the evolutionary questions, this challenging book summarizes the more recent results in phylogenetics and developmental biology that address the evolution of key innovations in metazoans.

  • Holt Biology
    Holt Biology

    Holt Biology

  • Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics
    Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics

    Monitoring quantitative genetic variation and evolution in captive populations. In Population management for survival and recovery, ed. J. D. Ballou, M. Gilpin, and T. J. Foose, 293–317. New York: Columbia University Press.

  • A Natural History of Beer
    A Natural History of Beer

    A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world?