Regulation and Genetics: Bacterial DNA Viruses

ISBN-13: 9781468427172 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 350 str.

H. Fraenkel-Conrat

Opis

The time seems ripe for a critical compendium of that segment of the biological universe we call viruses. Virology, as a science, having passed only recently through its descriptive phase of naming and num- bering, has probably reached that stage at which relatively few new- truly new-viruses will be discovered. Triggered by the intellectual probes and techniques of molecular biology, genetics, biochemical cytology, and high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy, the field has experienced a genuine information explosion. Few serious attempts have been made to chronicle these events. This comprehensive series, which will comprise some 6000 pages in a total of about 22 volumes, represents a commitment by a large group of active investigators to analyze, digest, and expostulate on the great mass of data relating to viruses, much of which is now amorphous and disjointed, and scattered throughout a wide literature. In this way, we hope to place the entire field in perspective, and to develop an invalua- ble reference and sourcebook for researchers and students at all levels. This series is designed as a continuum that can be entered anywhere, but which also provides a logical progression of developing facts and integrated concepts.

Spis treści

1 Regulation of Gene Action in the Development of Lytic Bacteriophages.- 2 Bacteriophage ?: The Lysogenic Pathway.- 3 Defective Bacteriophages and Incomplete Prophages.- 4 The P 2-P 4 Transactivation System.