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Microbial transmission /
Microbial transmission, the processes by which microbes transit to new environments, is a significant and broad-reaching concept with applications throughout the biological sciences. This collection of reviews, edited by an international team of experts studying and working across a range of discipl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
ASM Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface: Transmission and Interaction; About the Editors; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: Origin, History, and Meanings of the Word Transmission; ORIGIN AND MEANING OF MITTERE; ORIGIN AND MEANING OF TRANS-; DERIVATIVES OF THE VERB MITTERE; CITATION; REFERENCES; BASIC PROCESS OF TRANSMISSION; Chapter 2: Causality in Biological Transmission: Forces and Energies; THE COGNITIVE REPRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPT OF TRANSMISSION; COMPONENTS OF THE TRANSMISSION PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES AS MESSAGES
- CAUSALITY OF TRANSMISSION: FORCES AND ENERGIES; THE CAUSAL QUESTIONS IN TRANSMISSION; THE ULTIMATE CAUSE OF TRANSMISSION; THE PROXIMATE CAUSES OF TRANSMISSION; PROXIMATE CAUSES OF EMISSION; Causes Originated by the Size, Quality, and Location of the Emitter Patch; Patch size limitation; Local demographics: Overpopulated patch; Breeding requirements; Progeny crowding; Nutrient shortage; Unfit patch conditions; Distance between emitter and receiver patches: Mosaics and gradients; Causes Originated in Populations' Conflicts within the Emitter Patch; Local negative interactions
- Cooperation for transmission; Patch deconstruction; Displacement from the patch; Causes Related to the Lifestyle of Biological Individuals; Search for optimal or exclusive patches; Search for patches enabling genetic diversification and evolution; Vagility: Explorer life plan strategy; THE PROXIMATE CAUSES OF INTEGRATION AND PERMANENCE IN THE PATCH; Causes Originated by the Size, Quality, and Location of the Hosting Patch; Stability and sustainability; Shielded environments; Specific and rare hosting patches; Host patches with predictable fluctuation; Niche construction
- Causes Originated in Interactions within the Host Patch; Stable or cooperative interactions with local biological entities; Patch allowing low-cost replication; Causes Related to Biological Individuals; Exploiter life plan strategy; VEHICLES AS CAUSES OF TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION AND THE CAUSES OF NATURAL SELECTION: CIS- AND TRANS-EVOLUTION; CODA: CAUSES AND EFFECTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CITATION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: Natural and Artificial Strategies to Control the Conjugative Transmission of Plasmids; INTRODUCTION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; BACTERIAL CONJUGATION
- Conjugative Transfer, the Process; NATURAL STRATEGIES THAT CONTROL CONJUGATION; Host Strategies: Restriction; Host Strategies: CRISPR-Cas; Other Host Factors Involved in the Control of Conjugation; Plasmid Strategies: Exclusion; Plasmid Strategies: Fertility Inhibition; Transfer Inhibition of IncF Plasmids; Transfer Inhibition of IncW Plasmids; Transfer Inhibition of IncP Plasmids; Transfer Inhibition of pTi Plasmid's T-DNA; ARTIFICIAL STRATEGIES TO CONTROL CONJUGATION; Relaxase Inhibitors; Pilus Blockers; Nonspecific COINs; Unsaturated Fatty Acids
- T4SS Inhibitors Discovered by Biochemical Analysis