Bacterial and bacteriophage genetics Edward A. Birge
Publisher: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1994.
ISBN: 038794270X
DDC: 589.9087322
LCC: QH434
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fundamentals of bacterial and viral genetics -- Prokaryotic cells and
eukaryotic cells -- Selection: an essential element of microbial
genetics -- Major genetic transfer processes observed in
microorganisms and their viruses -- Nomenclature -- Replication and
analysis of DNA -- DNA structure -- Chromosome structure -- DNA
replication -- Linking DNA in arbitrary ways -- Analytical techniques
for DNA molecules -- Mutations and mutagenesis -- Bacterial variation
-- Plate spreading -- Replica plating -- Fluctuation test --
Measurement of mutation rate -- Expression and selection of mutant
cell phenotypes -- Genetic code -- Mutagens -- Transcription and
translation: processes and basic regulation -- RNA structure --
Regulation -- Examples of regulation in simple functional units --
DNA repair and simple recombination -- DNA repair -- Conceptual model
for generalized recombination -- Genetic and functional analysis of
recombination -- T4 bacteriophage as a model genetic system --
Morphology and composition -- Experimental methods used to study
phage infection -- Genetic organization of T4.
(cont) DNA replication -- Molecular biology of T4 phage infection --
Morphogenesis and maturation -- Genetics of other intemperate
bacteriophages -- Other members of the T series -- Bacteriophages
containing single-strand DNA -- RNA-containing bacteriophages --
Bacteriophages infecting Bacillus subtilis -- Genetics of temperate
bacteriophages -- General nature of the temperate response --
Bacteriophage lambda as the archetypal temperate phage -- Other
lambdoid phages -- Bacteriophage P22 -- Bacteriophages P2 and P4 --
Bacteriophage P1 -- Bacteriophage Mu -- Transduction -- Bacteriophage
Lambda: a specialized transducing phage -- Special transducing phages
other than Lambda -- Generalized transduction -- Analysis of
transductional data -- Genetic transformation -- Pneumococcus:
Bacillus transformation system -- Other transformation systems --
Transfection -- Genetic mapping using transformation -- Conjugation
and the Escherichia coli paradigm -- Basic properties of the
Escherichia coli conjugation system -- Interactions of the F plasmid
with the bacterial chromosome.
Analysis of the F plasmid -- Other plasmids and other conjugation
systems -- Major chromosome-mobilizing plasmids -- Bacteriocins --
Resistance plasmids -- Plasmid molecular biology -- Plasmid DNA
replication -- Incompatibility -- Conjugal functions -- Advanced
regulatory topics -- Regulons -- Global regulatory networks --
Recombination: generally and specifically -- Model for general
recombination -- Site-specific recombination -- Transposons --
Applied bacterial genetics -- More information about recombinant DNA
technology -- Cloning vectors -- Successes of DNA cloning -- Other
applications of bacterial genetics -- Bacterial evolution -- What is
evolution? -- Expression of evolutionary relationships -- Specific
examples of evolution -- Population genetics of Escherichia coli --
Genetic structure of the Escherichia coli chromosome.
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