CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface
Part I: General Concepts of Microbial Evolution
1. Part I Overview
John Mekalanos
2. Studying Evolution by Using Genome Sequence Data
Jeffrey G. Lawrence
3. Population Dynamics of Bacterial Pathogens
Martin C. J. Maiden and Rachel Urwin
4. The Study of Microbial Adaptation by Long-Term Experimental Evolution
Vaughn S. Cooper
5. The Contribution of Pathogenicity Islands to the Evolution of Bacterial
Pathogens
Bianca Hochhut, Ulrich Dobrindt, and J?rg Hacker
6. Black Holes and Antivirulence Genes: Selection for Gene Loss as Part of the
Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens
William A. Day and Anthony T. Maurelli
Part II: Environment and the Evolution of Microbial Pathogens
7. Part II Overview
Roberto Kolter and Deborah A. Hogan
8. Evolution of Pathogens in Soil
Rachel Muir and Man-Wah Tan
9. Experimental Models of Symbiotic Host-Microbial Relationships: Understanding
the Underpinnings of
Beneficence and the Origins of Pathogenesis
Margaret J. McFall-Ngai and Jeffrey I. Gordon
10. The Evolution of Bacterial Toxins
O. Colin Stine and James P. Nataro
11. Function, Evolution, and Classification of Macromolecular Transport Systems
Paul J. Planet, David H. Figurski and Rob DeSalle
12. The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
Dean Rowe-Magnus and Didier Mazel
Part III: Evolution of Selected Pathogenic Species and Mechanisms
13. Part III Overview
James B. Kaper
14. Group A Streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus: Evolution, Reemergence, and
Strain Diversification
Sean D. Reid, J. Ross Fitzgerald, Stephen B. Beres, Nicole M. Green, and James
M. Musser
15. Evolution of Enteric Pathogens
Ruiting Lan and Peter R. Reeves
16. Mycobacterial Evolution: Insights from Genomics and Population Genetics
Alexander S. Pym and Peter M. Small
17. Surface Structures of Group B Streptococcus Important in Human Immunity
Judith N. Steenbergen and Arturo Casadevall
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edited by H. Steven Seifert and Victor J. DiRita
Year:
2006
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Washington, DC, ASM Press
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Handbücher
ISBN:
1555813003
Description:
XIII, 355 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
Language:
englisch||
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