Molecular Basis of Symbiosis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Overmann, Jörg (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology, 41
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Microbial ecology.; Molecular ecology.; Microbiology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Ecology.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Molecular Ecology.

Symbiotic associations involving prokaryotes occur ubiquitously and are ecologically highly significant. In symbiotic associations, co-evolution of the partner organisms has led to specific mechanisms of signal exchange and reciprocal regulation, and resulted in novel physiological capabilities of t...

Table of Contents:

• Syntrophic Associations in Methanogenic Degradation
• Symbiosis between Non-Related Bacteria in Phototrophic Consortia
• Prokaryotic Symbionts of Termite Gut Flagellates: Phylogenetic and Metabolic Implications of a Tripartite Symbiosis
• Towards an Understanding of the Killer Trait: Caedibacter endocytobionts in Paramecium
• Bacterial Ectosymbionts which Confer Motility: Mixotricha paradoxa from the Intestine of the Australian Termite Mastotermes darwiniensis
• Extrusive Bacterial Ectosymbiosis of Ciliates
• Hydrogenosomes and Symbiosis
• Molecular Interactions between Rhizobium and Legumes
• Molecular mechanisms in the nitrogen-fixing Nostoc-Bryophyte symbiosis
• Symbiosis of Thioautotrophic Bacteria with Riftia pachyptila
• Symbioses of Methanotrophs and Deep-Sea Mussels (Mytilidae: Bathymodiolinae)
• Symbioses between Bacteria and Gutless Marine Oligochaetes
• Roles of Bacterial Regulators in the Symbiosis between Vibrio fischeri and Euprymna scolopes
• Molecular Requirements for the Colonization of Hirudo medicinalis by Aeromonas veronii.