Preface

Prolog

Part I: Laying the Groundwork

Chapter 1: Blood Clotting in Humans

Chapter 2: Clotting Inhibitors and Fibrinolysis

Chapter 3: Localizing Clots

Chapter 4: Proteins and Domains

Chapter 5: Fibrinogen and Fibrin

Chapter 6: Animals, Their Proteins and Phylogenetics

Chapter 7: Gene Duplications

Chapter 8: Genomes

Part II: Searching Through Genomes

Chapter 9: Genomes of Fish with Jaws

Chapter 10: Lamprey Clotting Genes

Chapter 11: Contact Factors and Other Embellishments

Chapter 12: Protochordate Genomes

Chapter 13: How the System Began

Afterword

Glossary

Appendix