This volume provides a valuable insight into many of the recent developments in this broad field and their biomedical or biotechnological relevance. Topics include quorum and anti-quorum sensing, selected symbioses, DNA shuffling in the environment, the evolution and development of novel motility mechanisms, hydrocarbon degradation, the interactions of microbes with metals, and adaptations of extremes of pressure and temperature.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Biologists
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978-1-898486-20-6 (9781898486206)
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Introduction (D.H. Bartlett); Quorum Regulation of Luminescence in Vibrio fischeri (P.V. Dunlap); The Euprymna scolopes -Vibrio fischeri Symbiosis: A Biomedical Model for the Study of Bacterial Colonization of Animal Tissue (E.G. Ruby); Bacterial Signals