The dynamic bacterial genome

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mullany, Peter , 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2005
Series:Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology 8
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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