The classic comprehensive and authoritative textbook on bacterial molecular genetics.

 

• Features completely revised and updated material and new chapters, incorporating the most recent advances in the field since publication of the third edition in 2007.

• Provides thought questions, problems, and suggested reading lists for each chapter that test student comprehension and encourage further research.

• Provides descriptive background information, detailed experimental methods, examples of genetic analyses, and advanced material relevant to current applications of molecular genetics.

• Serves as an invaluable text for anyone working in the fields of microbiology, genetics, biochemistry, bioengineering, medicine, molecular biology, and biotechnology. It is also essential reading for scientists in all fields of biology, many of whom depend upon the concepts and techniques covered in this book.

Larry Snyder, Michigan State University, USA

 

Wendy Champness, Michigan State University, USA

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Bacterial Chromosome: DNA Structure, Replication, and Segregation

Chapter 2. Bacterial Gene Expression: Transcription, Translation, and Protein Folding

Chapter 3. Bacterial Genetic Analysis: Forward and Reverse

Chapter 4. Plasmids

Chapter 5. Conjugation

Chapter 6. Transformation

Chapter 7. Lytic Bacteriophages: Development, Genetics, and Generalized Transduction

Chapter 8. Lysogeny: the ? Paradigm and the Role of Lysogenic Conversion in Bacterial 

Pathogenesis

Chapter 9. Transposition, Site-Specific Recombination, and Families of Recombinases

Chapter 10. Molecular Mechanisms of Homologous Recombination

Chapter 11. DNA Repair and Mutagenesis

Chapter 12. Regulation of Gene Expression: Operons

Chapter 13. Global Regulation: Regulons, Stimulons, and Cell-Cell Communication

Chapter 14. Bacterial Cell Compartmentalization and Sporulation

Answers to Questions for Thought and Problems

Glossary

Index