Horizontal gene transfer in the evolution of pathogenesis / ed. by Hensel M., Schmidt H. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. - xvii, 356 p., [4] p. of plates: ill. (some col.). - (Advances in molecular and cellular microbiology; 16). - Ind.: p.335-356. - ISBN 978-0-521-86297-4  Место хранения:   056 | Институт химической биологии и фундаментальной медицины CO РАН | Новосибирск| Библиотека

Оглавление / Contents

Preface page ................................................... xi Contributors ................................................... xv PART I. Theoretical Considerations on the Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens 1. Genomes in Motion: Gene Transfer as a Catalyst for Genome Change ............................................... 3 Jeffrey G. Lawrence and Heather Hendrickson 2. Bacterial Recombination in vivo ............................ 23 Xavier Didelot and Daniel Falush PART II. Mobile Genetic Elements in Bacterial Evolution 3. Phage-bacterium Co-evolution and Its Implication for Bacterial Pathogenesis ..................................... 49 Harald Brüssow 4. The Role of Bacteriophages in the Generation and Spread of Bacterial Pathogens ..................................... 79 Roger W. Hendrix and Sherwood R. Casjens 5. Genomic Islands in the Bacterial Chromosome - Paradigms of Evolution in Quantum Leaps ............................. 113 Tobias Ölschläger and Jörg Hacker PART III. Paradigms of Bacterial Evolution 6. Genomic Islands in Plant-pathogenic Bacteria .............. 137 Dawn L. Arnold and Robert W. Jackson 7. Prophage Contribution to Salmonella Virulence and Diversity ................................................. 159 Sebastien Lemire, Nara Figueroa-Bossi, and Lionello Bossi 8. Pathogenic Yersinia: Stepwise Gain of Virulence due to Sequential Acquisition of Mobile Genetic Elements ...... 193 Elisabeth Carniel 9. Genomic or Pathogenicity Islands in Streptococcus pneumoniae ................................................ 217 Barbara Albiger, Christel Blomberg, Jessica Dagerhamn, Staffan Normark, and Birgitta Henriques-Normark 10. The Mobile Genetic Elements of Staphylococcus aureus ...... 237 Richard P. Novick 11. Influence of Human Lifestyle on Dissemination of Transferable Elements ..................................... 273 Wolfgang Witte PART IV. Interkingdom Transfer and Endosymbiosis 12. Eukaryotic Gene Transfer: Adaptation and Replacements ..... 293 Jan O. Andersson 13. Lessons in Evolution from Genome Reduction in Endosymbionts ............................................. 317 Andrés Maya and Amparo Latorre Index .......................................................... 335