The Bacteriophages - Hardcover

Abedon, . Stephen T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195148509 ISBN 13: 9780195148503

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This authoritative, timely, and comprehensively referenced compendium on the bacteriophages explores current views of how viruses infect bacteria. In combination with classical phage molecular genetics, new structural, genomic, and single-molecule technologies have rendered an explosion in our knowledge of phages. Bacteriophages, the most abundant and genetically diverse type of organism in the biosphere, were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century and enjoyed decades of used as anti-bacterial agents before being eclipsed by the antibiotic era. Since 1988, phages have come back into the spotlight as major factors in pathogenesis, bacterial evolution, and ecology. This book reveals their compelling elegence of function and their almost inconceivable diversity.

Much of the founding work in molecular biology and structural biology was done on bacteriophages. These are widely used in molecular biology research and in biotechnology, as probes and markers, and in the popular method of assesing gene expression.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Calendar is Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been studying bacteriophages since 1966.

Review:

"In summary, the book is a well-edited, comprehensive survey of phage researches and could be recommended for scientists working in various areas of biology."Immunological Investigations

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0195148509
• ISBN 13: 9780195148503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 768
• Editor: Calendar Richard Lane