Front Cover; The Recombination of Genetic Material; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Genetic Recombination: A Brief Overview; I. What Is Genetic Recombination; II. What Are the Major Types of Recombination; III. How Is Recombination Detected?; IV. How Often Does Recombination Occur, and How Long Does It Take; V. What Length of DNA Can Be Involved in a Recombination Event, and How Much Is Necessary; VI. What Indicates That Recombination Is Not Simple -- VII. How Is Recombination Important for Cellular Behavior; VIII. A Recombination Bibliography.

III. Mismatch Repair in Escherichia coliIV. Methyl-Directed Mismatch Repair; V. Experiments with Highly Methylated DNA Chains; VI. Methyl-Independent Mismatch Repair; VII. Nucleotide Specificity of Mismatch Repair; VIII. Methyl Direction and Other Repair Systems specific for New DNA Chains; References; Chapter 5. Homologous Recombination Sites and Their Recognition; I. Singularities in Homologous Recombination; II. Recombination Sites in Bacteria and Bacteriophage; III. Recombination Sites in Fungi; IV. Summary and Concluding Remarks; References.

Chapter 6. Pathways and Systems of Homologous Recombination in Escherichia coliI. Introduction; II. Pathways of Recombination Defined by Conjugational Systems; III. Effects of rec Mutations on Other Recombination Systems; IV. Recombination Stimulation and rec Gene Dependence; V. Summing Up; References; Chapter 7. Genetic Recombination: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Evolution; I. Introduction; II. The Prototype Holliday Model; III. Physical Evidence for the Existence of the Holliday Recombination Intermediate; IV. Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Recombination.

V. Initiation Mechanisms for Forming the Holliday Recombination IntermediateVI. The RecA Protein and Genetic Recombination; VII. Auxiliary Proteins Involved in Recombination; VIII. An Enzymatic Overview of the Recombination Mechanism; IX. On the Possible Evolution of the Recombination Mechanism; References; Chapter 8. Transpositional and Site-Specific Recombination Mediated by Bacterial Transposons; I. Introduction; II. Tn3 and Related Transposons; III. IS Elements and Composite Transposons; IV. Bacteriophages Mu and D108; V. Unclassified Transposons; VI. Transposition Mechanisms.