Overview
- Fascinating story about the evolutionary histories of bacteriocins and the ecological roles of these biological weapons in microbial communities
- Of utmost interest because of the potential utility in human and animal health applications, and agricultural uses
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Microbes produce an extraordinary array of defense systems. These include bacteriocins, a class of antimicrobial molecules with narrow killing spectra, produced by bacteria. The book describes the diversity and ecological role of bacteriocins of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, presenting a new classification scheme for the former and a state-of-the-art look at the role of bacteriocins in bacterial communication. It discusses the molecular evolution of colicins and colicin-like bacteriocins, and provides a contemporary overview of archaeocins, bacteriocin-like antimicrobials produced by archaebacteria. Furthermore, various modeling (in silico) studies elucidate the role of bacteriocins in microbial community dynamics and fitness, delving into rock-paper-scissors competition and the counter-intuitive survival of the weakest. The book makes compelling reading for a multi-faceted scientific audience, including those working in the fields of biodiversity and biotechnology, notably in the human and animal health domain.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bacteriocins
Book Subtitle: Ecology and Evolution
Editors: Margaret A. Riley, Milind A. Chavan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36604-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-36603-4Published: 23 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07170-6Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-36604-1Published: 10 November 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 150
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Bacteriology, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, general, Evolutionary Biology, Medical Microbiology