Research Catalog

Title

Organization of the prokaryotic genome / edited by Robert L. Charlebois.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

Charlebois, Robert L.

Description

xii, 378 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Subjects

• Microbial genetics
• Genomes
• Prokaryotes
• Genome, Bacterial
• Prokaryotic Cells
• Genetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Sequencing Microbial Genomes / Christoph W. Sensen -- 2. Statistical Predictions of Coding Regions in Prokaryotic Genomes by Using Inhomogeneous Markov Models / Mark Borodovsky, William S. Hayes and Alexander V. Lukashin -- 3. Bacterial Genomes - All Shapes and Sizes / Stewart T. Cole and Isabelle Saint-Girons -- 4. Archaea: Whose Sister Lineage? / Robert L. Charlebois -- 5. The Eukaryotic Perspective: Similarities and Distinctions between Pro- and Eukaryotes / Conrad L. Woldringh and Roel Van Driel -- 6. Comparing Microbial Genomes: How the Gene Set Determines the Lifestyle / Michael Y. Galperin, Roman L. Tatusov and Eugene V. Koonin -- 7. Impact of Homologous Recombination on Genome Organization and Stability / Diarmaid Hughes -- 8. Illegitimate Recombination in Bacteria / Benedicte Michel -- 9. Insertion Sequences and Transposons / Ronald Chalmers and Michel Blot --
• 10. Structure of DNA within the Bacterial Cell: Physics and Physiology / Conrad L. Woldringh and Theo Odijk -- 11. DNA Supercoiling and Its Consequences for Chromosome Structure and Function / N. Patrick Higgins -- 12. Local Genetic Context, Supercoiling, and Gene Expression / Andrew St. Jean -- 13. "Stable" Genomes / Kenneth E. Sanderson, Michael McClelland and Shu-Lin Liu -- 14. Unstable Linear Chromosomes: The Case of Streptomyces / Pierre Leblond and Bernard Decaris -- 15. Genomic Flux: Genome Evolution by Gene Loss and Acquisition / Jeffrey G. Lawrence and John R. Roth -- 16. Gene Transfer in Escherichia coli / Roger Milkman -- 17. Genetic Inventory: Escherichia coli as a Window on Ancestral Proteins / Bernard Labedan and Monica Riley -- 18. Proteome Approach to the Identification of Cellular Escherichia coli Proteins / Amanda S. Nouwens, Femia G. Hopwood and Mathew Traini / [et al.] --
• 19. Genome-Wide Strategies for Studying Gene Function by Using Model Systems / Reginald K. Storms.

ISBN

1555811515 (hardcover)

LCCN

99032407

OCLC

• ocm41400935
• SCSB-3892860

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries