Microbial evolution:gene establishment, survival, and exchange

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Miller Robert V.; (Robert Verne), 1945-; Day Martin J.
Published: ASM Press,
Publisher Address: Washington, D.C.
Publication Dates: c2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xiv, 374 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 1555812716 (alk. paper)
Index Number: Q933
CLC: Q933
Q931
Call Number: Q931/M626-1
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mutagenesis and DNA repair: the consequences of error and mechanisms for remaining the same / John R. Battista & Ashlee M. Earl -- RecA-dependent mechanisms for the generation of genetic diversity / Steven J. Sandler & Klaus Nüsslein -- Nonhomologous recombination / François Cornet & Michael Chandler -- Gene duplication and gene loading / Renato Fani -- Multiple chromosomes / Chris Mackenzie, Samuel Kaplan & Madhusudan Choudhary -- Generating intracellular processes / Martin J. Day & Robert V. Miller -- Bacterial conjugation: cell-cell contact-dependent horizontal gene spread / Günther Koraimann -- Conjugative and mobilizable transposons / Abigail Salyers, Gabrielle Whittle, & Nadja B. Shoemaker -- Bacteriophage-mediated transduction: an engine for change and evolution / Robert V. Miller -- Transformation / Martin J. Day -- Horizontal gene transfer and the real world / Robert V. Miller & Martin J. Day -- Stationary-phase-induced mutagenesis: is directed mutagenesis alive and well within neo-darwinian theory? / Ronald E. Yasbin & Mario Pedraza-Reyes -- Temporal segregation: succession in biofilms / Susse Kirkelund Hansen & Søren Molin -- Spatial segregation: the deep subsurface story / David L. Balkwill -- Are you out there? intercellular signaling in the microbial world / Mike Manefield, Sara L. Turner, Andrew K. Lilley & Mark J. Bailey -- Gene associations in bacterial pathogenesis: pathogenicity islands and genomic deletions / Eshwar Mahenthiralingam -- Strategies in antagonistic and co-operative interactions / Angela E. Douglas -- Why are genes lost? why do genes persist? / Martin J. Day & Robert V. Miller -- Horizontal transfer, genomic diversity, and genomic differentiation / Roger Milkman -- Horizontal gene transfer and prokaryotic genome evolution / I. King Jordan & Eugene V. Koonin -- What makes a bacterial species? when molecular sequence data are used, is rRNA enough? / Lorraine G. van Waasbergen -- Can we understand bacterial phylogeny, and does it make any difference anyway? / Robert V. Miller & Martin J. Day.