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FROM SMELLS to SIGNALS the Evolution of Animal Pheromones New from Garland Science BIOMIMETICS FOCUS ON… PAGES OF DESIGN INSPIRED BY GENE EDITING AND INSPIRING BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES CRISPR-CAS9 EXPLAINED 48 BIOSCIENCE THE MAGAZINE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BIOLOGY ⁄www.rsb.org.uk ISSN 0006-3347 • Vol 63 No 1 • Feb/Mar 2016 FROM SMELLS TO SIGNALS The evolution of animal pheromones New from Garland Science Molecular Biology of Assemblies and Machines Alasdair C. Steven, Silver Spring, MD, USA, Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany, Louise N. Johnson, formerly Oxford University, UK and Richard N. Perham, formerly Cambridge University, UK Molecular Biology of Assemblies and Machines presents a comprehensive narrative describing the structures of macromolecular complexes and how they assemble and interact. 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