Mechanisms of homologous recombination in bacteria / Marie-Agnes Petit -- Introduction to site-specific recombination / Makkuni Jayaram and Ian Grainge -- Site-specific recombination by the serine recombinases / Sally J. Rowland and W. Marshall Stark -- Mobile introns and retroelements in bacteria / Steve Zimmerly -- The F-plasmid, a paradigm for bacterial conjugation / Michael J. Gubbins, William R. Will, and Laura S. Frost -- Molecular aspects of movement of conjugative transposons / Adam P. Roberts and Peter Mullany -- Competence for genetic transformation / Irena Draskovic and David Dubnau -- Phase variation and antigenic variation / Richard Villemur and Eric Deziel -- Pathogenicity island / Bianca Hochhut and Jorg Hacker -- Biological consequences for bacteria of homologous recombination / Diarmaid Hughes and Tobias Norstrom -- Horizontal gene transfer and bacterial genomic legacies / James R. Brown.
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This book is concerned with the mechanisms underlying recombination in bacterial DNA.