Research Catalog

Title

Prokaryotic development / edited by Yves V. Brun, Lawrence J. Shimkets.

Publication

Washington, DC : ASM Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

• Brun, Yves.
• Shimkets, Lawrence J.

Description

xiv, 477 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• Microbial cell cycle
• Prokaryotes > Development

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Prokaryotic Development: Strategies To Enhance Survival / Lawrence J. Shimkets and Yves V. Brun -- Actinomycetes. 1. Actinomycete Development, Antibiotic Production, and Phylogeny: Questions and Challenges / Wendy Champness. 2. Developmental Decisions during Sporulation in the Aerial Mycelium in Streptomyces / Keith F. Chater -- Cyanobacteria. 3. Cyanobacterial Phylogeny and Development : Questions and Challenges / David G. Adams. 4. Heterocyst Formation in Anabaena / C. Peter Wolk. 5. The Paleobiologic Record of Cyanobacterial Evolution / J. William Schopf -- Endospore-Forming Bacteria. 6. Endospore-Forming Bacteria: an Overview / Abraham L. Sonenshein. 7. Regulation of the Initiation of Endospore Formation in Bacillus subtilis / William F. Burkholder and Alan D. Grossman. 8. Asymmetric Division and Cell Fate during Sporulation in Bacillus subtilis / Petra Anne Levin and Richard Losick. 9. Morphogenesis and Properties of the Bacterial Spore / Adam Driks and Peter Setlow --
• Myxobacteria. 10. Introduction to the Myxobacteria / Martin Dworkin. 11. Developmental Aggregation and Fruiting Body Formation in the Gliding Bacterium Myxococcus xanthus / Mandy J. Ward and David R. Zusman. 12. Cell-Interactive Sensing of the Environment / Dale Kaiser. 13. Growth, Sporulation, and Other Tough Decisions / Lawrence J. Shimkets. 14. Development of Stigmatella / David White and Hans Ulrich Schairer -- Stalked Bacteria. 15. The Dimorphic Life Cycle of Caulobacter and Stalked Bacteria / Yves V. Brun and Raji Janakiraman. 16. Regulation of Flagellum Biosynthesis and Motility in Caulobacter / James W. Gober and Jennifer C. England -- 17. Signal Transduction and Cell Cycle Checkpoints in Developmental Regulation of Caulobacter / Noriko Ohta, Thorsten W. Grebe and Austin Newton. 18. Regulation of the Caulobacter Cell Cycle / Dean Hung, Harley McAdams and Lucy Shapiro -- Pathogenesis and Symbiosis.
• 19. Swarming Migration by Proteus and Related Bacteria / Gillian M. Fraser, Richard B. Furness and Colin Hughes. 20. The Chlamydial Developmental Cycle / Daniel D. Rockey and Akira Matsumoto. 21. Developmental Cycle of Coxiella burnetii / James E. Samuel. 22. Differentiation of Free-Living Rhizobia into Endosymbiotic Bacteroids / William Margolin.

ISBN

1555811582

LCCN

99044864

OCLC

• 42290370
• ocm42290370
• SCSB-3892877

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries