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Campbell (Stanford U.), Jones (Carnegie Mellon U., Pittsburgh until her death in 2008), and Schupbach (Princeton U.) present a diverse collection of 30 articles by international academics and researchers; some originally appeared online at the Annual Reviews website during 2008. A sampling of topics: mid-century controversies in population genetics, how Saccharomyces responds to nutrients, the future of QTL mapping to diagnose disease in mice in the age of whole-genome association studies, rhomboid proteases and their biological function, individuality in bacteria, selection on codon bias, genetics of sleep, the dynamics of photosynthesis, the take and give between retrotransposable elements, genomic insights into marine microalgae, the genetic and cell biology of Wolbachia-host interactions, and effects of retroviruses on host genome function. No subject index. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)