Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms

Dworkin, Martin; James A. Shapiro

ISBN 10: 0195091590 / ISBN 13: 9780195091595

Published by Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford, 1997

About this Item

24 x 16 cm. 466pp. . Bound into glossy boards. This is Martin Dwoirkin's copy who co-edited the work. Signed on front paste-dwon and his last name is written on the page edges. Typed letter from the publisher laid-in. Corners are bumped. Collects 15 articles by various authors. The first book to treat bacteria as multiculuar as opposed to single celled orgasims.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195091590
• ISBN 13: 9780195091595
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science

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Synopsis

Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms is the first book devoted specifically to multicellular aspects of bacterial life, representing a new approach to bacteria. Contrary to conventional wisdom, which treats bacteria as autonomous single cells, this book shows how bacteria are sentient, interactive organisms with an unexpecteedly broad repertoire of chemical and physical mechanisms for signalling each other and organizing themselves into multicellular aggregates with novel properties. The book has been compiled from reports by specialists in a variety of disciplines from genetics and microbiology to environmental engineering and biotechnology. This interdisciplinary approach reflects the growing importance of bacteria as key experimental material for investigating phenomena common to many fields in contemporary science: communication, complexity, self-organization, and pattern formation. The impact of bacterial multicellularity will affect such diverse areas as evolutionary population biology, non-linear dynamics, and information science.

From the Back Cover

Bacteria as Multicellular Organisms is the first book dedicated to the multicellular behavior of microbes. This work goes beyond the traditional view of bacteria as single, autonomous cells and instead approaches bacteria as sentient, interactive organisms capable of significant collective activity. The cooperative and coordinated behaviors observed in a diverse range of bacteria in the past decade has been quite astonishing. In fact, bacteria possess an unexpectedly broad repertoire of chemical and physical mechanisms for signalling each other and organizing themselves into multicellular aggregates with novel properties. Some of the phenomena discussed in this book include communication, complexity, self-organization and pattern formation within bacterial populations.