744

Harwood Academic Publishers

c2000

xxiii, 419 p. ill. 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index , 1. Plasmid replication and copy number control / M. Espinosa ... [et al.] -- 2. Plasmid maintenance systems / K. Gerdes ... [et al.] -- 3. Conjugative-DNA transfer processes / E.L. Zechner ... [et al.] -- 4. Ecology of plasmid transfer and spread / J.D. van Elsas ... [et al.] -- 5. Isolation and characterisation of plasmids from bacteria / K. Smalla, M. Osborn and E.M.H. Wellington -- 6. Phenotypic traits conferred by plasmids / E.M. Top ... [et al.] -- 7. Bacterial population genetics: do plasmids maintain bacterial diversity and adaptation? / A. Lilley, P. Young and M. Bailey -- 8. The evolution of bacterial plasmids / M. Osborn ... [et al.] -- 9. Gene recruiters and transporters: the modular structure of bacterial mobile elements / C. Merlin ... [et al.].

Thomas, Christopher M