Annals of Botany 91: 401, 2003
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Alberts, B., Johnson, A., Lewis, J., Raff, M., Roberts, K. and Walter, P. Molecular biology of the cell. 4th edn.
Molecular biology of the cell. 4th edn.
Alberts B, Johnson A, Lewis J, Raff M, Roberts K, Walter P. 2002.
New York: Garland Science.
£44 (softback). 1616 pp. plus CD-ROM.
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First edition, 1983; 2nd edition, 1989; 3rd edition, 1994; 4th edition, 2002. Any book that appears in so many editions in such a relatively short space of time must be doing something right. And so it is, for Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBoC as the authors refer to it) is arguably setting the paceand the standardthat other textbooks on the subject must aspire to. Although not familiar with the previous incarnations of MBoC, I do note that the line-up