<p>This book brings together current information on the families that make up the kinesin superfamily of molecular motors in one comprehensive text; an ideal reference for researchers looking to make comparisons between different families for specific information on an individual family or simply for an overview of the kinesin superfamily.<br>Information is clearly structured and grouped according to individual families and organised in a standardised way allowing the reader to easily search and retrieve information on this large superfamily of molecular motors and understand how its individual members carry out a diverse variety of cellular functions.</p><p>Features:</p><ul> <li>The first book dedicated to the entire kinesin superfamily</li> <li>Enables a fuller understanding of this family of proteins which is becoming an increasing focus of research due to its involvement in diseases such as cancer neuropathies and ciliopathies</li> <li>Written in a manner accessible to a range of researchers in the life and medical sciences including biophysicists biochemists and medical researchers.</li> <p>Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.<b><a href=https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138589568_oachapter4.pdf>here</a>.</b></p> <p>Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.<b><a href=https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138589568_oachapter11.pdf>here</a>.</b></p> </ul>