Microbial Interactions

1. Front Matter

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2. Aggregation and Cell Surface Receptors in Cellular Slime Molds

   • Peter C. Newell

   Pages 1-57

3. Bacterial Chemotaxis

   • Gerald L. Hazelbauer, John S. Parkinson

   Pages 59-98

4. Bacterial Receptors for Phages and Colicins as Constituents of Specific Transport Systems

   • V. Braun, K. Hantke

   Pages 99-137

5. The Attachment of Bacteria to the Surfaces of Animal Cells

   • Garth W. Jones

   Pages 139-176

6. Binding and Entry of DNA in Bacterial Transformation

   • Sanford A. Lacks

   Pages 177-232

7. A Redefinition of the Mating Phenomenon in Bacteria

   • Mark Achtman, Ron Skurray

   Pages 233-279

8. Cell — Cell Interactions during Mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • Thomas R. Manney, James H. Meade

   Pages 281-321

9. Mating Interactions in Chlamydomonas

   • Ursula W. Goodenough

   Pages 323-350

10. Cell — Cell Interactions in Ciliates: Evolutionary and Genetic Constraints

    • D. L. Nanney

    Pages 351-397

11. An Overview

    • Jose L. Reissig

    Pages 399-415

12. Back Matter

    Pages 417-436

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Microbiology has undergone a number of metamorphoses in its relatively brief existence. It has been in approximate succession, morphology, epidemiology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. It is also becoming a significant parcel of cell surface studies. The one embodiment which has remained elusiv- particularly for bacteriology - is the taxonomic one. This may have been a blessing in disguise because it encouraged microbiologists to deal with the general rather than the particular; promoting a search for unitary explanations, in the manner of Kluyver and van Niel, long before anyone knew about the universality of the genetic code, or could trace the genealogy of enzymes from the study of amino acid substitutions. . This volume is predicated on the idea that deep analogies underly the mech­ anisms of cellular interaction, and therefore belongs in the unitary tradition of microbiology. It occupies itself with a wide variety of micro-organisms, considering them from vantage points of considerable diversity, ranging from taxonomic irreverence to keen evolutionary awareness, and is concerned with areas which have developed independently of each other.

• bacteria
• epidemiology
• genetics
• microbiology
• molecular biology

• Department of Biology, C.W. Post College, Long Island University, USA

  J. L. Reissig

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