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The Ecology and Genetics of Microbial Diversity

Annual Review of Microbiology, 2004
▪ Abstract  Natural communities of microbes are often diverse, a fact that is difficult to reconcile with the action of natural selection in simple, uniform environments. We suggest that this apparent paradox may be resolved by considering the origin and fate of diversity in an explicitly ecological context. Here, we review insights into the ecological
Rees, Kassen, Paul B, Rainey
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The Microbial Genetics of Antibiotic Cycling

Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 2000
AbstractCycling of currently available antibiotics to reduce resistance is an attractive concept. For cycling strategies to be successful, their implementation must have a demonstrable impact on the prevalence of resistance determinants already dispersed throughout the hospital and associated healthcare facilities.
J F, John, L B, Rice
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The Microbial Genetic Algorithm

2011
We analyse how the conventional Genetic Algorithm can be stripped down and reduced to its basics. We present a minimal, modified version that can be interpreted in terms of horizontal gene transfer, as in bacterial conjugation. Whilst its functionality is effectively similar to the conventional version, it is much easier to program, and recommended for
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Population genetics of microbial organisms

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 1992
Population data suggest that many parasitic protozoa (e.g. Trypanosoma, Leishmania, Entamoeba and Giardia) reproduce clonally, but this hypothesis has been highly controversial for Plasmodium falciparum. Although reproduction is predominantly clonal in the enteric bacteria Escherichia coli and Salmonella, the level of recombination affecting short (< 1
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Biochemistry and genetics of microbial xylanases

Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 1996
Xylanases are classified into two major families (10 or F and 11 or G) of glycosyl hydrolases. Both use ion pair catalytic mechanisms and both retain anomeric configuration following hydrolysis. Family 10 xylanases are larger, more complex and produce smaller oligosaccharides; Family 11 xylanases are more specific for xylan. Alkaline-active and extreme-
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Applied Aspects of Microbial Genetics

1970
For a long time microbiologists held the opinion, that they could solve all of the problems connected with research on microorganisms without the support of any allied sciences, including genetics. The main thesis of such a point of view was that microorganisms are not subject to mutational change but that variation in microorganisms is based on direct
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Molecular Genetics and Microbial Fermentations

1981
The interaction of the field of molecular genetics, especially the part of it termed recombinant DNA technology, with the business of large-scale microbial fermentations is a subject much in the news these days. From the reaction of Wall Street to the recent and prospective public offerings of genetic engineering companies, one would think these ...
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Microbial Genetics and Biochemistry

Nature, 1952
The Genetics of Micro-organisms By D. G. Catcheside. Pp. vii + 223. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1951.) 21s. net.
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Diversity of microbial defence systems

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2022
Adrian Cázares, Wendy Figueroa, Daniel Cázares   +2 more
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Microbial Genetics

Science, 1981
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