The influence of cooperative bacteria on animal host biology

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: McFall-Ngai Margaret Jean.; Henderson Brian, PhD.; Ruby Edward G.
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge New York, NY
Publication Dates: 2005.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology ; 10
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Carrier Form: xix, 425 p., [8] p. of plates: ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 0521834651 (hardback)
Index Number: Q939
CLC: Q939.103
Q939.108
Q939.1
Call Number: Q939.1/I433
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
How have bacteria contributed to the evolution of multicellular animals? / Carole S. Hickman -- The interface of microbiology and immunology: a comparative analysis of the animal kingdom / Margaret McFall-Ngai -- Co-evolution of bacteria and their hosts: a marriage made in heaven or hell? / J··org Hacker ... [et al.] -- Industrial revolution and microbial evolution / Fernando de la Cruz and Julian Davies -- Bacteria evolve and function within communities: observations from experimental Pseudomonas populations / Paul B. Rainey -- Coral symbioses: the best and worst of three kingdoms / Eugene Rosenberg -- Interactions between inherited bacteria and their hosts: the Wolbachia paradigm / Zoe L. Veneti ... [et al.] -- Microbial communities in lepidopteran guts: from models to metagenomics / Jo Handelsman, Courtney J. Robinson, and Kenneth F. Raffa -- Commensal diversity and the immune system: modelling the host-as-network / Robert M. Seymour -- Beneficial intracellular bacteria in the Dryophthoridae: evolutionary and immunological features of a pathogenic-like relationship / Abdelaziz Heddi and Caroline Anselme -- Type III secretion in Bordetella-host interactions / Seema Mattoo and Jeffrey F. Miller -- Resident bacteria as inductive signals in mammalian gut development / Lora V. Hooper -- Virulence or commensalism: lessons from the urinary tract / G··oran Bergsten, Bj··orn Wullt, and Catharina Svanborg -- Host responses to bacteria; innate immunity in invertebrates / L. Courtney Smith -- Bacterial recognition by mammalian cells / Clare E. Bryant and Sabine T··otemeyer -- Moonlighting in protein hyperspace: shared moonlighting proteins and bacteria-host crosstalk / Brian Henderson -- Cell signalling pathways as targets for bacterial evasion and pathology / Andrew S. Neish -- Shaping of the bacterial world by human intervention / Rino Rappuoli.