The Dynamic Bacterial Genome

ISBN: 9780521129619 出版年：2005 页码：446 Peter Mullany Cambridge University Press

Part I. Basic Mechanisms of Genome Rearrangement in Bacteria: 1. Mechanisms of homologous recombination in bacteria Marie-Agnes Petit 2. Introduction to site-specific recombination Makkuni Jayaram and Ian Grainge 3. Site-specific recombination by the serine recombinases Sally J. Rowland and W. Marshall Stark 4. Mobile introns and retroelements in bacteria Steve Zimmerly Part II. Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Plasticity: 5. The F-Plasmid, a paradigm for bacterial conjugation Michael J. Gubbins, William R. Will and Laura S. Frost 6. Molecular aspects of movement of conjugative transposons Adam P. Roberts and Peter Mullany 7. Competence for genetic transformation Irena Draskovic and David Dubnau Part III. Biological Consequences of the Mobile Genome: 8. Phase variation and antigenic variation Richard Villemur and Eric Deziel 9. Pathogenicity islands Bianca Hochhut and Jorg Hacker 10. Biological consequences for bacteria of homologous recombination Diarmaid Hughes and Tobias Norstrom 11. Horizontal gene transfer and bacterial genomic legacies James R. Brown.