The New Microbiology: From Microbiomes to Crispr

ISBN-13: 9781683670100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 200 str.

Pascale Cossart

Opis

In The New Microbiology, Pascale Cossart tells a splendid story about the revolution in microbiology, especially in bacteriology.

Spis treści

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I: New Concepts in MicrobiologyChapter 1 Bacteria: Many Friends, Few EnemiesChapter 2 Bacteria: Highly Organized Unicellular OrganismsChapter 3 The RNA RevolutionChapter 4 From the CRISPR Defense System to the CRISPR/Cas9 Method for Modifying GenomesChapter 5 Antibiotic ResistancePart II: Sociomicrobiology: The Social Lives of BacteriaChapter 6 Biofilms: When Bacteria Gather TogetherChapter 7 How Bacteria Communicate: Chemical Language and Quorum SensingChapter 8 When Bacteria Kill Each OtherChapter 9 Human-Animal Symbioses: The MicrobiotasChapter 10 Bacterium-Plant Symbioses: Microbiotas of PlantsChapter 11 Endosymbiotic RelationshipsPart III: The Biology of InfectionsChapter 12 Pathogenic Bacteria, Major Scourges, and New DiseasesChapter 13 The Multiple Strategies of Pathogenic BacteriaChapter 14 Pathogenic Bacteria in InsectsChapter 15 Plants and Their Pathogenic BacteriaChapter 16 New Visions in Infection DefensePart IV: Bacteria as ToolsChapter 17 Bacteria as Tools for ResearchChapter 18 Bacteria: Old and New Health ToolsChapter 19 Bacteria as Environmental ToolsGlossaryBibliographyIndex