Foreword, Ry Young
Contributors
PART I: General Background of Phage Biology
1. Phage and the Early Development of Molecular Biology, William C. Summers
2. Classification of Bacteriophages, Hans-W. Ackermann
3. Prophage Genomics, Harald Bruüssow
4. Evolution of Tailed Phages: Insights from Comparative Phage Genomics, Harald Bruüssow and Frank Desiere
5. Phage Ecology, Stephen T. Abedon
PART II: Life of Phages
6. DNA Packaging in Double-Stranded DNA Phages, Paul J. Jardine and Dwight L. Anderson
7. General Aspects of Lysogeny, Allan Campbell
8. Gene Regulatory Circuitry of Phage l, John W. Little
9 Regulation of l Gene Expression by Transcription Termination and Antitermination. David I. Friedman and Donald L. Court
10. Phage Lysis, Ry Young and Ing-Nang Wang
PART III: Cubic and Filamentous Phages
11. qX174 et al., the Microviridae, Bentley A. Fane, Karie L. Brentlinger, April D. Burch, Min Chen, SusanHafenstein, Erica Moore, Christopher R. Novak, and Asako Uchiyama
12. Filamentous Phage, Marjorie Russel and Peter Model
13. PRD1: Dissecting the Genome, Structure, and Entry, A. Marika Grahn, Sarah J. Butcher, Jaana K. H. Bamford, and Dennis H. Bamford
14. Lipid-Containing Bacteriophage PM2, the Type Organism of Corticoviridae, Dennis H. Bamford and Jaana K. H. Bamford
15. Single-Stranded RNA Phages, Jan van Duin and Nina Tsareva
16. Phages with Segmented Double-Stranded RNA Genomes, Leonard Mindich
PART IV: Individual Tailed Phages
17. The T1-Like Bacteriophages, Gregory J. German, Rajeev Misra, and Andrew M. Kropinski
18. T4 and Related Phages: Structure and Development, Gisela Mosig and Fred Eiserling
19. Bacteriophage T5, Jon R. Sayers
20. The T7 Group, Ian J. Molineux
21. Bacteriophage N4, Krystyna M. Kazmierczak and Lucia B. Rothman-Denes
22. Phage q29 and its Relatives, Margarita Salas
23. Bacteriophage SPP1, Juan C. Alonso, Paulo Tavares, Rudi Lurz, and Thomas A. Trautner
24. Bacteriophage P1, Hansjörg Lehnherr
25. The P2-Like Bacteriophages, Anders S. Nilsson and Elisabeth Haggård Ljungquist
26. The Satellite Phage P4, Gianni Dehò and Daniela Ghisotti
27. Bacteriophage l and its Genetic Neighborhood, Roger W. Hendrix and Sherwood Casjens
28. N15: The Linear Plasmid Prophage, Nikolai V. Ravin
29. Bacteriophage P22, Peter E. Prevelige, Jr.
30. The Bacteriophage Mu, Luciano Paolozzi and Patrizia Ghelardini
PART V: Phages by Host or Habitat
31. Viruses of Archaea, Kenneth M. Stedman, David Prangishvili, and Wolfram Zillig
32. Phages of Cyanobacteria, Nicholas H. Mann
33. Marine Phages, Robert V. Miller
34. Yersinia Phages, Stefan Hertwig, Mikael Skurnik, and Bernd Appel
35. Temperate Bacteriophages of Bacillus subtilis, Pamela S. Fink and Stanley A. Zahler
36. Phages of Lactococcus lactis, Lone Brønsted and Karin Hammer
37. The Listeria Bacteriophages, Martin J. Loessner and Richard Calendar
38. Mycobacteriophages, Graham F. Hatfull
39. Molecular Genetics of Streptomyces Phages, Margaret C. M. Smith
40. Mycoplasma Phages, Jack Maniloff and Kevin Dybvig
41. Lactobacillus Phages, Harald Brüssow and Juan E. Suárez
PART VI: Applications
42. Control of Bacteriophage in Commercial Microbiology and Fermentation Facilities, Gregg Bogosian
43. Phage-Based Expression Systems, Noreen E. Murray
44. Phage in Display, Bjorn H. Lindqvist
45. Bacteriophage as Pollution Indicators, Charles P. Gerba
46. The Use of Phage as Diagnostic Systems, Cath Rees
47. Bacteriophages in Bacterial Pathogenesis, Patrick L. Wagner and Matthew K. Waldor
48. Phage Therapy, Carl R. Merril, Dean Scholl, and Sankar Adhya
Index