The horizontal gene pool
Subtitle: bacterial plasmids and gene spread
By: edited by Christopher M. Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Christopher M.
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
Subjects: Plasmids.; Genes, Bacterial.; Evolution, Molecular.; Plasmids -- genetics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Plasmid replication and copy number control / M. Espinosa ... [et al.]; title: 2. Plasmid maintenance systems / K. Gerdes ... [et al.]; title: 3. Conjugative-DNA transfer processes / E.L. Zechner ... [et al.]; title: 4. Ecology of plasmid transfer and spread / J.D. van Elsas ... [et al.]; title: 5. Isolation and characterisation of plasmids from bacteria / K. Smalla, M. Osborn and E.M.H. Wellington; title: 6. Phenotypic traits conferred by plasmids / E.M. Top ... [et al.]; title: 7. Bacterial population genetics: do plasmids maintain bacterial diversity and adaptation? / A. Lilley, P. Young and M. Bailey; title: 8. The evolution of bacterial plasmids / M. Osborn ... [et al.]; title: 9. Gene recruiters and transporters: the modular structure of bacterial mobile elements / C. Merlin ... [et al.].