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9780521834650

The Influence of Cooperative Bacteria on Animal Host Biology

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    9780521834650

  • ISBN10:

    0521834651

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-08-22
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Ninety percent of the cells in the human body are bacteria, and humans may be host to many thousands of different species of bacteria. These striking statistics are part of a new paradigm in microbiology in which bacteria are no longer viewed as disease-causing killers but more as lifelong partners which are often essential for the survival of their host. This book brings together a group of diverse scientists - evolutionary biologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, microbiologists, pathologists and mathematicians - to discuss the evolution and mechanisms of bacteria-host interactions at all levels of complexity. Chapters deal with the evolution of these interactions over the last 60 years (since the introduction of antibiotics) to a period of 3.8 billion years (since the evolution of single-celled life) and discuss bacterial interactions with multicellular life forms from coral reefs to humans. Researchers and graduate students across the life sciences will find this book of interest.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Contributors xv
I. Evolutionary biology of animal host-bacteria interactions
How have bacteria contributed to the evolution of multicellular animals?
3(32)
Carole S. Hickman
The interface of microbiology and immunology: A comparative analysis of the animal kingdom
35(22)
Margaret McFall-Ngai
Co-evolution of bacteria and their hosts: A marriage made in heaven or hell?
57(16)
Jorg Hacker
Ulrich Dobrindt
Michael Steinert
Hilde Merkert
Ute Hentschel
Industrial revolution and microbial evolution
73(10)
Fernando de la Cruz
Julian Davies
Bacteria evolve and function within communities: Observations from experimental Pseudomonas populations
83(20)
Paul B. Rainey
II. Bacterial ecology and the host as an environment
Coral symbioses: The best and worst of three kingdoms
103(16)
Eugene Rosenberg
Interactions between inherited bacteria and their hosts: The Wolbachia paradigm
119(24)
Zoe L. Veneti
Max Reuter
Horacio Montenegro
Emily A. Hornett
Sylvain Charlat
Gregory D. Hurst
Microbial communities in lepidopteran guts: From models to metagenomics
143(26)
Jo Handelsman
Courtney J. Robinson
Kenneth F. Raffa
Commensal diversity and the immune system: Modelling the host-as-network
169(34)
Robert M. Seymour
III. Cellular interactions at the bacteria--host interface
Beneficial intracellular bacteria in the Dryophthoridae: Evolutionary and immunological features of a pathogenic-like relationship
203(20)
Abdelaziz Heddi
Caroline Anselme
Type III secretion in Bordetella--host interactions
223(26)
Seema Mattoo
Jeffrey F. Miller
Resident bacteria as inductive signals in mammalian gut development
249(16)
Lora V. Hooper
Virulence or commensalism: Lessons from the urinary tract
265(28)
Goran Bergsten
Bjorn Wullt
Catharina Svanborg
IV. Bacterial interactions with the immune system
Host responses to bacteria: Innate immunity in invertebrates
293(28)
L. Courtney Smith
Bacterial recognition by mammalian cells
321(26)
Clare E. Bryant
Sabine Totemeyer
Moonlighting in protein hyperspace: Shared moonlighting proteins and bacteria--host cross talk
347(28)
Brian Henderson
Cell signalling pathways as targets for bacterial evasion and pathology
375(24)
Andrew S. Neish
Shaping of the the bacterial world by human intervention
399(10)
Rino Rappuoli
Index 409

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"This book brings together a group of diverse scientists - evolutionary biologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, microbiologists, pathologists, and mathematicians - to discuss the evolution and mechanisms of bacteria-host interactions at all levels of complexity, ranging from associations of one bacterium with its host to the many hundreds of bacteria normally associated with mammals. Chapters deal with the evolution of bacteria-host interactions over the last 60 years (since the introduction of antibiotics) to a period of 3.8 billion years (since the evolution of single-celled life) and discuss bacterial interactions with multicellular life forms such as coral reefs, insects, mice, and men. This book should be of interest to the widest range of biological scientists."--BOOK JACKET.

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