Biocode : the new age of genomics / Dawn Field & Neil Davies. -- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015. – (58.1482/F453)

Contents

1. DNA

   Immortal coil

   A world in your wardrobe

   The molecular narcissist

   "Who's Your Daddy?'

   The case of the unusual cat

   Stranger visions

   Advertising your genes

2. Personal Genomics

   Science rock star genomes

   'Six billion base pairs for six billion people

   A scant 30,000 genomes

   Genomics 101

   Genomics Goliath

   Blindsided

3. Homo Evolutis

   BabySeq

   Devil's Ark

   De-extinction

   Synthia

   Embryo genomics

   Genomematch.com

   Humanity rebooted

4. Zoo in My Sequencer

   Elvis lives

   Genomic GOLD

   Does size matter?

   Don't call it junk

   The first tweenome

   Denisovan girl

   Single-celled sisters

   Microbial Earth

   Losing the Acropolis

5. No Organism Is an Island

   The biodiversity within

   Ratios matter

   Eating for trillions

   Microbes on the brink

   Genomic donations

   2 per cent of pandas

   The last prairie

6. Terra-Genoming

   The lingering kiss

   Reunion

Unicorns

Invaders

Genes on the move

A dead sea comes to life

Shock and awe

7. We Are All Ecosystems Now

   Quantified Self

   Roller derby

   A buoy in the ocean

   Cottonwood, cod, and corals

   The Moorea Biocode

   GEMs

8. Biocoding the Earth

   The Biocode

   Our place in nature

   Sun jammer

   You too can biocode

   The Planetary Genome Project

Endnotes

References

Further Reading

Index