Population genetics of bacteria
Subtitle: a tribute to Thomas S. Whittam
By: edited by Seth T. Walk, Peter C. H. Feng
Contributors: Whittam, Thomas S.; American Society for Microbiology
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781555815356
Subjects: Genetics; Methods; Festschrift; Population genetics; Population Genetics; Escherichia coli; Bacterial genetics; Bacteria
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A personal homage to Tom Whittam / Mark Achtman; title: Population geneticists discover bacteria and their genetic/molecular epidemiology / Bruce R. Levin; title: The impact of horizontal genetic exchange on bacterial population structure : insights from the genera neisseria and campylobacter / Martin C. J. Maiden; title: The genomics of Escherichia coli and beyond / Chih-Horng Kuo, Howard Ochman, and Rahul Raghavan; title: Are species cohesive : a view from bacteriology / Frederick M. Cohan; title: The niche of Escherichia coli / Elizabeth W. Alm, Seth T. Walk, and David M. Gordon; title: Molecular epidemiology and population genetics of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli / James R. Johnson; title: Epidemiology of Argentinean shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli / Marta Rivas ... [et al.]; title: Gene acquisition and loss in the phylogenetic lineages of the invasive Escherichia coli / Alyssa C. Bumbaugh and David W. Lacher; title: Fitness islands in uropathogenic Escherichia coli / Amanda L. Lloyd and Harry L. T. Mobley; title: Genomic and virulence heterogeneity of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli / Edward G. Dudley and David A. Rasko; title: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli / Louise D. Teel, Angela R. Melton-Celsa, and Alison D. O'Brien; title: The evolutionary model of Escherichia coli O157:H7 / David W. Lacher; title: Evolutionary emergence and impact of atypical Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains / Peter C. H. Feng and Steven R. Monday; title: Thomas Whittam, shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli, and the clinical relevance of clonality / Shana R. Leopold and Phillip I. Tarr; title: Sorbitol-fermenting enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 / Helge Karch ... [et al.]; title: Molecular evolution of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli and application to epidemiology / Galeb S. Abu-Ali ... [et al.]; title: Escherichia coli O157:H7 in reservoir hosts / Thomas E. Besser, Margaret A. Davis, and Seth T. Walk.