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Microbes and evolution : the world that Darwin never saw / / edited by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy |
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Washington, D.C., : ASM Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-68367-073-6 |
1-55581-847-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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KolterRoberto <1953-> |
MaloyStanley R |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Microorganisms - Evolution |
Bacteria - Evolution |
Evolution (Biology) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Half Title""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Darwin and Microbiology""; ""Chapter 1. Evolution in Action: A 50, 000-Generation Salute to Charles Darwin""; ""Chapter 2. Minimal Genomes and Reducible Complexity""; ""Minimal Cells: from Aristotle to Plato""; ""Naturally Evolved Reduced Genomes""; ""The Flagellum of a Bacterial Endosymbiont: A Case against Intelligent Design""; ""Chapter 3. Lady Lumps�s Mouthguard""; ""Chapter 4. Trying To Make Sense of the Microbial Census""; ""Chapter 5. The View from Below"" |
""Chapter 6. Running Wild with Antibiotics""""Chapter 7. Antibiotic Resistance""; ""What Are Antibiotics and How Do They Work?""; ""Some Bacteria Are Naturally Resistant to Particular Antibiotics""; ""How Susceptible Bacteria Become Resistant to Antibiotics""; ""Target-Focused Resistance Mechanisms""; ""Drug-Focused Resistance Mechanisms""; ""What Has Antibiotic Use Taught Us about Natural Variation, Selection, and Evolution of Bacteria?""; ""Where Do We Stand Today?""; ""Chapter 8. Bacteria Battling for Survival""; ""Chapter 9. Phage: An Important Evolutionary Force Darwin Never Knew"" |
""Chapter 10. The Struggle for Existence: Mutualism""""Chapter 11. The |
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Secret Social Lives of Microorganisms""; ""Chapter 12. Microbes and Microevolution""; ""Chapter 13. Unnecessary Baggage""; ""Chapter 14. Bacterial Adaptation: Built-In Responses and Random Variations""; ""Graduality and Overlap of Bacterial Built-In Responses""; ""Heterogeneity in Bacterial Populations""; ""Bacterial Genome Plasticity""; ""Variation of Mutation Rates""; ""Clues of Bacterial Evolutionary Success""; ""Chapter 15. The Impact of Differential Regulation on Bacterial Speciation"" |
""Chapter 16. An Accidental Evolutionary Biologist: GASP, Long-Term Survival, and Evolution""""Chapter 17. How Bacteria Revealed Darwin's Mistake (and Got Me To Read On the Origin of Species""; ""The Importance of Small-Effect Mutations""; ""Before You Can Estimate the Mutation Rate, You Must Eliminate Natural Selection""; ""Why are Mutants Frequent in the Cairns Experiment?""; ""Take-Home Points""; ""Chapter 18. The Role of Conjugation in the Evolution of Bacteria""; ""Chapter 19. Do Bacteria Have Sex?""; ""Chapter 20. Better than Sex"" |
""Chapter 21. Darwin in My Lab: Mutation, Recombination, and Speciation""""Chapter 22. Sexual Difficulties""; ""Chapter 23. Unveiling Prochlorococcus: The Life and Times of the Ocean�s Smallest Photosynthetic Cell""; ""Chapter 24. Deciphering the Language of Diplomacy: Give and Take in the Study of the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis""; ""The Geological Context of the Evolution of Animal-Microbial Partnerships""; ""A “Symbiosis� Begins: Margaret�s Story""; ""Evolution of a Microbiologist: Ned�s Story""; ""What We�ve Learned, Where We Are Now, and Where We're Going"" |
""Chapter 25. The Tangled Banks of Ants and Microbes"" |
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