Microbial Interactions

J. L. Reissig

ISBN 10: 1461597005 / ISBN 13: 9781461597001

Editore: Springer US, Chapman And Hall/CRC Nov 2012, 2012

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Microbiology has undergone a number of metamorphoses in its relatively brief existence. It has been in approximate succession, morphology, epidemiology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. It is also becoming a significant parcel of cell surface studies. The one embodiment which has remained elusiv- particularly for bacteriology - is the taxonomic one. This may have been a blessing in disguise because it encouraged microbiologists to deal with the general rather than the particular; promoting a search for unitary explanations, in the manner of Kluyver and van Niel, long before anyone knew about the universality of the genetic code, or could trace the genealogy of enzymes from the study of amino acid substitutions. . This volume is predicated on the idea that deep analogies underly the mech anisms of cellular interaction, and therefore belongs in the unitary tradition of microbiology. It occupies itself with a wide variety of micro-organisms, considering them from vantage points of considerable diversity, ranging from taxonomic irreverence to keen evolutionary awareness, and is concerned with areas which have developed independently of each other. 448 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Microbial Interactions
• Editore: Springer US, Chapman And Hall/CRC Nov 2012
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1461597005
• ISBN 13: 9781461597001
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 235 L x 155 A x 25 P (millimetri) 235 millimetri di larghezza per 155 millimetri di altezza per 25 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 674 grammi

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Microbiology has undergone a number of metamorphoses in its relatively brief existence. It has been in approximate succession, morphology, epidemiology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. It is also becoming a significant parcel of cell surface studies. The one embodiment which has remained elusiv- particularly for bacteriology - is the taxonomic one. This may have been a blessing in disguise because it encouraged microbiologists to deal with the general rather than the particular; promoting a search for unitary explanations, in the manner of Kluyver and van Niel, long before anyone knew about the universality of the genetic code, or could trace the genealogy of enzymes from the study of amino acid substitutions. . This volume is predicated on the idea that deep analogies underly the mech­ anisms of cellular interaction, and therefore belongs in the unitary tradition of microbiology. It occupies itself with a wide variety of micro-organisms, considering them from vantage points of considerable diversity, ranging from taxonomic irreverence to keen evolutionary awareness, and is concerned with areas which have developed independently of each other.

Contenuti

1 Aggregation and Cell Surface Receptors in Cellular Slime Molds.- 2 Bacterial Chemotaxis.- 3 Bacterial Receptors for Phages and Colicins as Constituents of Specific Transport Systems.- 4 The Attachment of Bacteria to the Surfaces of Animal Cells.- 5 Binding and Entry of DNA in Bacterial Transformation.- 6 A Redefinition of the Mating Phenomenon in Bacteria.- 7 Cell—Cell Interactions during Mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.- 8 Mating Interactions in Chlamydomonas.- Cell—Cell Interactions in Ciliates: Evolutionary and Genetic Constraints.- An Overview.- Thesaurus of Microbial Interactions.