Microbes and evolution [[electronic resource] ] : the world that Darwin never saw / / edited by Roberto Kolter and Stanley Maloy

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : ASM Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Disciplina: 571.8/92
• Soggetto topico: Microorganisms - Evolution; Bacteria - Evolution; Evolution (Biology)
• Altri autori: KolterRoberto <1953-> MaloyStanley R
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 Lumpsâ€?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 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 Oceanâ€?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 “Symbiosisâ€? Begins: Margaretâ€?s Story""; ""Evolution of a Microbiologist: Nedâ€?s Story""; ""What Weâ€?ve Learned, Where We Are Now, and Where We're Going"" ; ""Chapter 25. The Tangled Banks of Ants and Microbes""
• Titolo autorizzato: Microbes and evolution
• ISBN: 1-68367-073-6; 1-55581-847-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830305603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II