Bacterial genetics has become one of the cornerstones of basic and applied microbiology and has contributed key knowledge for many of the fundamental advances of modern biology. The second edition of this comprehensive yet concise text, first published in 1981, has been thoroughly updated and redesigned to account for new developments in this rapidly expanding field. All of the major topics in modern bacterial and bacteriophage genetics are presented, among them mutations and mutagenesis, genetics of T4 bacteriophage and other intemperate and temperate phages, transduction, transformation, conjugation and plasmids, recombination and repair, probability laws for prokaryote cultures, as well as applied bacterial genetics.

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1 Prokaryote Molecular Biology.- 2 Genetic Processes and Procedures.- 3 Mutations and Mutagenesis.- 4 T4 Bacteriophage as a Model Genetic System.- 5 The Genetics of Other Intemperate Bacteriophages.- 6 Genetics of Temperate Bacteriophages.- 7 Transduction.- 8 Genetic Transformation.- 9 Conjugation in Escherichia coli.- 10 Other Plasmids and Other Conjugation Systems.- 11 Plasmid Molecular Biology.- 12 Regulation.- 13 Repair and Recombination of DNA Molecules.- 14 Applied Bacterial Genetic Principles.- The Laws of Probability and Their Application to Prokaryote Cultures.- Definition of Probability.- Dependent versus Independent Events.- Application of the Binomial Expansion to Probability Theory.- Poisson Approximation.- Summary.- Problems.