The dynamic bacterial genome
By: edited by Peter Mullany
Contributors: Mullany, Peter, 1959-
Series: Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology -- v. 8; Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology -- 8
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
Subjects: Bacterial genetics; Genetic recombination; Bacterial transformation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Mechanisms of homologous recombination in bacteria / Marie-Agnès Petit; title: Introduction to site-specific recombination / Makkuni Jayaram and Ian Grainge; title: Site-specific recombination by the serine recombinases / Sally J. Rowland and W. Marshall Stark; title: Mobile introns and retroelements in bacteria / Steve Zimmerly; title: The F-plasmid, a paradigm for bacterial conjugation / Michael J. Gubbins, William R. Will, and Laura S. Frost; title: The conjugative transposons : integrative gene transfer elements / Adam P. Roberts and Peter Mullany; title: Competence for genetic transformation / Irena Draskovic and David Dubnau; title: Phase variation and antigenic variation / Richard Villemur and Eric Déziel; title: Pathogenicity islands / Bianca Hochhut and Jörg Hacker; title: Biological consequences for bacteria of homologous recombination / Diarmaid Hughes and Tobias Norström; title: Horizontal gene transfer and bacterial genomic legacies / James R. Brown