Key Features
Key features:
* Contributions from leading authorities
* Informs and updates on all the latest developments in the field
Description
This volume, the first of a two-part series, covers topics including historical, ecological and evolutionary considerations, genomics and molecular biology, and interaction of phages with their hosts.
Readership
Virologists, microbiologists and infectious diseases specialists.
Bacteriophages, Part A, 1st Edition
- The role of CRISPR/cas system in the development of bacteriophage resistance
Agnieszka Szczepankowska
- Postcards from the edge: structural genomics of archaeal viruses
Mart Krupovic, Malcolm F. White, Patrick Forterre, David Prangishvili
- Sputnik, a virophage infecting the viral domain of life
Christelle Desnues, Mickaël Boyer, Didier Raoult
- Bacteriophage-encoded bacterial virulence factors and phage-pathogenicity island interactions
E. Fidelma Boyd
- The secret lives of mycobacteriophages
Graham F. Hatfull
- Phage lambda - new insights into regulatory circuits
Grzegorz Wegrzyn, Katarzyna Licznerska, Alicja Wegrzyn
- Bacteriophage electron microscopy
Hans-W. Ackermann
- Structure, assembly, and DNA packaging of the bacteriophage T4 head
Lindsay W. Black and Venigalla B. Rao
- Pseudolysogeny
Marcin Los, Grzegorz Wegrzyn
- Role of host factors in bacteriophage f29 DNA replication
Daniel Muñoz-Espín, Gemma Serrano-Heras and Margarita Salas