The dynamic bacterial genome
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
2005
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| Series: | Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology
8 |
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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