http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
xi, 423 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Mechanisms of homologous recombination in bacteria / Marie -Agnès Petit -- Introduction to site-specific recombination / Makkuni Jayaram and Ian Grainge -- Site- specific recombination by the serine recombinases / Sally J. Rowland and W. Marshall Stark -- Mobile introns and retroelements in bacteria / Steve Zimmerly -- The F- plasmid, a paradigm for bacterial conjugation / Michael J. Gubbins, William R. Will, and Laura S. Frost -- The conjugative transposons : integrative gene transfer elements / Adam P. Roberts and Peter Mullany -- Competence for genetic transformation / Irena Draskovic and David Dubnau -- Phase variation and antigenic variation / Richard Villemur and Eric Déziel -- Pathogenicity islands / Bianca Hochhut and Jِrg Hacker -- Biological consequences for bacteria of homologous recombination / Diarmaid Hughes and Tobias Norstrِm -- Horizontal gene transfer and bacterial genomic legacies / James R. Brown
Includes bibliographical references and index
Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology 8