Research Catalog

Title

Microbial evolution : gene establishment, survival, and exchange / edited by Robert V. Miller, Martin J. Day.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Miller, Robert V. (Robert Verne), 1945-
• Day, Martin J.

Description

xiv, 374 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Microorganisms > Evolution
• Genetics, Microbial
• Chromosomes, Bacterial > genetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. Intracellular mechanisms for generating diversity -- 1. Mutagenesis and DNA repair : the consequences of error and mechanisms for remaining the same / John R. Battista and Ashlee M. Earl -- 2. RecA-dependent mechanisms for the generation of genetic diversity / Steven J. Sandler and Klaus Nusslein -- 3. Nonhomologous recombination / Francois Cornet and Michael Chandler -- 4. Gene duplication and gene loading / Renato Fani -- 5. Multiple chromosomes / Chris Mackenzie, Samuel Kaplan and Madhusudan Chaudhary -- 6. Generating intracellular processes / Martin J. Day and Robert V. Miller -- II. Intercellular mechanisms for gene movement -- 7. Bacterial conjugation : cell-cell contact-dependent horizontal gene spread / Gunther Koraimann -- 8. Conjugative and mobilizable transposons / Abigail A. Salyers, Gabrielle Whittle and Nadja B. Shoemaker -- 9. Bacteriophage-mediated transduction : an engine for change and evolution / Robert V. Miller -- 10. Transformation / Martin J. Day -- 11. Horizontal gene transfer and the real world / Robert V. Miller and Martin J. Day -- III. Mechanisms for gene establishment and survival -- 12. Stationary-phase-induced mutagenesis : is directed mutagenesis alive and well within neo-Darwinian theory? / Ronald E. Yasbin and Mario Pedraza-Reyes -- 13. Temporal segregation : succession in biofilms / Susse Kirkelund Hansen and Soren Molin -- 14. Spatial segregation : the deep subsurface story / David L. Balkwill -- 15. Are you out there? : intercellular signaling in the microbial world / Mike Manefield, Sarah L. Turner, Andrew K. Lilley and Mark J. Bailey -- 16. Gene associations in bacterial pathogenesis : pathogenicity islands and genomic deletions / Eshwar Mahenthiralingam -- 17. Strategic in antagonistic and cooperative interactions / Angela E. Douglas -- 18. Why are genes lost? : why do genes persist? / Martin J. Day and Robert V. Miller -- IV. Mechanisms for detecting genomic diversity -- 19. Horizontal transfer, genomic diversity, and genomic differentiation / Roger Milkman -- 20. Horizontal gene transfer and prokaryotic genome evolution / I. King Jordan and Eugene V. Koonin -- 21. What makes a bacterial species? : when molecular sequence data are used, is rRNA enough? / Lorraine G. van Waasbergen -- 22. Can we understand bacterial phylogeny, and does it make any difference anyway? / Robert V. Miller and Martin J. Day.

ISBN

1555812716 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003024010

OCLC

• ocm53370098
• SCSB-5053971

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries