Research Catalog

Title

Prokaryotic genetics : genome organization, transfer, and plasticity / Françoise Joset, Janine Guespin-Michel, with the collaboration of Leslie O. Butler.

Author

Joset, Françoise.

Publication

Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Guespin-Michel, Janine.
• Butler, L. O.

Description

ix, 454 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in microbiology

Uniform Title

Studies in microbiology.

Subjects

• Bacteria > Genetics
• Bacteria > genetics
• Prokaryotes > Genetics
• Bacterial genetics
• Cytogenetics
• Prokaryotic Cells

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 442-447) and index.

Contents

Pt. 1. Structure of the Genetic Material. 1. The Prokaryotes: a Brief Introduction. 2. Bacterial Chromosomes: Structure and Reproduction. 3. Other Autonomously Replicating Genetic Entities: the Plasmids. 4. Further Autonomous Genetic Elements: the Bacteriophages. 5. Transposable Elements. 6. Protection of DNA Integrity: DNA Methylation and the Restriction-Modification Systems -- Pt. 2. Modification of the Genetic Material. 7. Mutations and Mutants. 8. DNA Repair. 9. Homologous Genetic Recombination. 10. Genetic Transfer: Transformation. 11. Genetic Transfer: Conjugation. 12. Other Transfer Systems: Natural and Artificial. 13. Genetics with Transposons -- Pt. 3. Genetics as a Tool in Understanding Genetic Organization and Function. 14. Construction of Genomic Maps. 15. Genetics as a Tool in Understanding Gene Expression and its Control: the Operon Model. 16. Genetics as a Tool in Unravelling the Molecular Organization of Genetic Functions.

ISBN

0632027282

LCCN

92048692

OCLC

ocm26768556

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries