Overview
- The first book to explore communication competencies in Bacteriophages, the planet’s most abundant living agents
- Presents new Insights into Phage-Phage, Phage Host and Phage-Environment Interactions
- Includes possible uses of phage therapy to complement antibiotics in fighting multi-drug resistant bacterial diseases
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This is the first book to systemize all levels of communicative behavior of phages. Phages represent the most diverse inhabitants on this planet. Until today they are completely underestimated in their number, skills and competences and still remain the dark matter of biology.
Phages have serious effects on global energy and nutrient cycles. Phages actively compete for host. They can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’ (complement same, preclude others). They process and evaluate available information and then modify their behaviour accordingly. These diverse competences show us that this capacity to evaluate information is possible owing to communication processes within phages (intra-organismic), between the same, related and different phage species (interorganismic), and between phages and non-phage organisms (transorganismic). This is crucial in coordinating infection strategies (lytic vs. lysogenic) and recombination in phage genomes.
In 22 chapters, expert contributors review current research into the varying forms of phage biocommunication and Phagetherapy.
Biocommunication of Phages aims to assess the current state of research, to orient further investigations on how phages communicate with each other to coordinate their behavioral patterns, and to inspire further investigation of the role of non-phage viruses (non-lytic, non-prokaryotic) in these highly dynamic interactional networks.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biocommunication of Phages
Editors: Guenther Witzany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45885-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45884-3Published: 30 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45887-4Published: 30 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45885-0Published: 29 June 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 502
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Virology, Applied Microbiology, Cell Biology, Veterinary Microbiology, Parasitology and Infectious Diseases
Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharma