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The new microbiology : from microbiomes to CRISPR /
"Microbiology has undergone radical changes over the past few decades and ushered in an exciting new era in science. Microbes, specifically bacteria, are incredibly diverse: some are associated with disease and many others are essential for health. Bacteria are highly complex life forms able to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Washington, DC :
ASM Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Monograph, ASM Press.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: New Concepts in Microbiology
- Bacteria: many friends, few enemies
- Bacteria: highly organized unicellular organisms
- The RNA revolution
- From the CRISPR defense system to the CRISPR/Cas9 method for modifying genomes
- Antibiotic resistance
- Part II: Sociomicrobiology: The Social Lives of Bacteria
- Biofilms: when bacteria gather together
- How bacteria communicate: chemical language and quorum sensing
- When bacteria kill each other
- Human-animal symbioses: the microbiotas
- Bacterium-plant symbioses: microbiotas of plants
- Endosymbiotic relationships
- Part III: The Biology of Infections
- Pathogenic bacteria, major scourges, and new diseases
- The multiple strategies of pathogenic bacteria
- Pathogenic bacteria in insects
- 15. Plants and their pathogenic bacteria
- 16. New visions in infecction defense
- Part IV: Bacteria as Tools
- 17. Bacteria as tools for research
- 18. Bacteria: old and new health tools
- 19. Bacteria as environmental tools
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Major figues in microbiology.