The Dynamic Bacterial Genome

Herausgeber: Mullany, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with the mechanisms underlying recombination in bacterial DNA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 716g
• ISBN-13: 9780521129619
• ISBN-10: 0521129613
• Artikelnr.: 28110323

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Basic Mechanisms of Genome Rearrangement in Bacteria: 1. Mechanisms
of homologous recombination in bacteria Marie-Agnès Petit; 2. Introduction
to site-specific recombination Makkuni Jayaram and Ian Grainge; 3.
Site-specific recombination by the serine recombinases Sally J. Rowland and
W. Marshall Stark; 4. Mobile introns and retroelements in bacteria Steve
Zimmerly; Part II. Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Plasticity: 5. The
F-Plasmid, a paradigm for bacterial conjugation Michael J. Gubbins, William
R. Will and Laura S. Frost; 6. Molecular aspects of movement of conjugative
transposons Adam P. Roberts and Peter Mullany; 7. Competence for genetic
transformation Irena Draskovic and David Dubnau; Part III. Biological
Consequences of the Mobile Genome: 8. Phase variation and antigenic
variation Richard Villemur and Eric Déziel; 9. Pathogenicity islands Bianca
Hochhut and Jörg Hacker; 10. Biological consequences for bacteria of
homologous recombination Diarmaid Hughes and Tobias Norström; 11.
Horizontal gene transfer and bacterial genomic legacies James R. Brown.