Prokaryotic genetics : genome organization, transfer, and plasticity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Joset, Françoise
Other Authors:	Guespin-Michel, Janine, Butler, L. O.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1993.
Series:	Studies in microbiology.
Subjects:	Bacterial genetics. Prokaryotes > Genetics. Bacteria > Genetics Bacteria > genetics. Cytogenetics. Prokaryotic Cells.

Table of Contents:

Structure of the genetic material
Prokaryotes: a brief introduction
Bacterial chromosomes: structure and reproduction
Other autonomously replicating genetic entities: the plasmids
Further autonomous genetic elements: the bacteriophages
Transposable elements
Protection of DNA integrity: DNA methylation and the restriction-modification systems
Modification of the genetic material
Mutations and mutants
DNA repair
Homologous genetic recombination
Genetic transfer: transformation
Genetic transfer: conjugation
Other transfer systems: natural and artificial
Genetics with transposons
Genetics as a tool in understanding genetic organization and function
Construction of genomic maps
Genetics as a tool in understanding gene expression and its control: the operon model
Genetics as a tool in unravelling the molecular organization of genetic functions.