Bacteriophage Ecology (eBook, PDF)

Population Growth, Evolution, and Impact of Bacterial Viruses
Redaktion: Abedon, Stephen T.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that infect bacteria and are believed to be the most abundant and genetically diverse organisms on Earth. As such, their ecology is vast both in quantitative and qualitative terms. Their abundance makes an understanding of phage ecology increasingly relevant to bacterial ecosystem ecology, bacterial genomics and bacterial pathology. Abedon provides the first text on phage ecology for almost 20 years. Written by leading experts, synthesizing the three key approaches to studying phage ecology, namely studying them in natural environments (in situ), experimentally in the lab, or theoretically using mathematical or computer models. With strong emphasis on microbial population biology and distilling cutting-edge research into basic principles, this book will complement other currently available volumes. It will therefore serve as an essential resource for graduate students and researchers, particularly those with an interest in phage ecology and evolutionary biology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511402517
• Artikelnr.: 38212088

Autorenporträt

Stephen T. Abedon is Associate Professor of Microbiology at The Ohio State University, He contributed to the editing of The Bacteriophages (2006) and founded the Bacteriophage Ecology Group at http://www.phage.org to encourage collaboration and to provide a central resource for the bacteriophage community.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Phage, ecology, evolution Stephen T. Abedon; Part I. Phage
Ecology: 2. Bacteriophage: models for exploring basic principles of ecology
Benjamin Kerr, Jevin West and Brendan J. M. Bohannan; 3. Phage population
growth: constraints, games, adaptation Stephen T. Abedon; 4. Impact of
spatial structure on phage population growth Stephen T. Abedon and John
Yin; 5. Contribution of lysogeny, pseudolysogeny, and starvation to phage
ecology Robert V. Miller and Martin J. Day; Part II. Phage Evolutionary
Biology: 6. Phage evolutionary biology Siobain Duffy and Paul E. Turner; 7.
Phage evolution Roger W. Hendrix; 8. Evolutionary ecology of multiple phage
adsorption and infection Paul E. Turner and Siobain Duffy; 9. Patterns in
phage experimental adaptation J. J. Bull; Part III. Phage Ecology in
Environments: 10. Aquatic phage ecology T. Frede Thingstad, Gunnar Bratbak
and Mikal Heldal; 11. Phage ecology of terrestrial environments Martin J.
Day and Robert V. Miller; 12. Phage, bacteria, and food Lawrence D.
Goodridge; 13. Interaction of bacteriophages with animals Carl R. Merril;
14. Phage ecology of bacterial pathogenesis Paul Hyman and Stephen T.
Abedon; Part IV. Modeling Phage Ecology: 15. Modeling bacteriophage
population growth David Stopar and Stephen T. Abedon; 16. Modeling phage
plaque growth Stephen M. Krone and Stephen T. Abedon; 17. Modeling of
bacteriophage therapy Jason J. Gill.