The Cell Cycle: An Introduction - Softcover

Andrew Murray is Assistant Professor of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. Tim Hunt is at ICRF Clare Hall Laboratories, Hertfordshire, UK, and is Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.

"[If] you want to know something about the cell cycle, then this is the book for you...will certainly continue to be of immediate use and relevance for both undergraduate and postgraduate students."--Genetwork

"Short and highly readable. The book contains excellent and plentiful illustrations. This is a very useful overview of our current understanding of the cell cycle....Refreshing and stimulating." --Science

"A very useful book, which will be widely welcomed....This book is different in two respects. Firstly, it concentrates almost entirely on the recent discoveries about the molecular biology of the cycle with only some of the earlier work briefly sketched in. Secondly, it is designed as a student textbook in the pattern of other modern textbooks....The writing is excellent - crisp and clear....If you are going to teach a course on the cell cycle concentrating on the recent molecular approaches, this is the book for you." -- BioEssays

"A marvellous introduction to the cell cycle and its control, one needed especially in view of the recent remarkable advances in this area. There are carefully selected references at the end of each chapter, many very useful line drawings, and an excellent appendix describing 418 genes that affect the cell cycle. Highly recommended." --Choice

"Bravely attempts to summarize recent discoveries about the role of cyclin-dependent kinases....The list of yeast cell cycle genes at the end of the book will be of enormous value to everyone. The pictures throughout the book are also superb.... Murray and Hunt's book will be a useful addition to your library. It lays out quite clearly many of the key problems that preoccupy current researchers of the cell cycle." -- Cell

"This is the first book for many years that aims at a comprehensive coverage of the cell cycle. As such, it is the first to deal with the exciting new discoveries of the last decade....The book is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate students, and will no doubt be a great success in this market....The authors do a good job...of simplifying and rationalizing the sometimes complex material....I have used this book as a source of material for undergraduate teaching, and have recommended it (highly) to third and fourth year undergraduates....I would additionally recommend the book...to researchers who are new to the cell cycle....Even for many of us with a background in the cell cycle, the book contains clear reviews of areas other than our own pet research topics....I look forward to a second edition in due course." --Peter Fantes, Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology, Edinburgh, UK, TIBS

"An excellent comprehensive survey on the cell cycle. I will definitley use it in my Cell Biology class."--Kent R Thomas, PhD, Kansas Newman College

"If you want to know something about the cell cycle, then this book is for you. . .may offer fundamental insights into a complex problem, and will certainly continue to be of immediate use and relevance for both undergraduate and postgraduate students." --Genetwork

"This book creates an integrated approach to thinking about the cell cycle, rather than proceeding chronologically through its stages . . . . Throughout the book, estimates on how far we have come on the road to enlightenment and the most important unanswered questions about the cell cycle are provided."--Nucleic Acids Abstracts

"A superb book and would make as good an introduction to the field as one could hope for . . . . occupies an unusual niche in that it presents science at a serious but not burdensome level."--American Journal of Human Genetics