Bacteriophage Ecology
Population Growth, Evolution, and Impact of Bacterial Viruses

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Phage, ecology, evolution Stephen T. Abedon
Part I. Phage Ecology:
2. Bacteriophage: models for exploring basic principles of ecology Benjamin Kerr, Jevin West and Brendan J. M. Bohannan
3. Phage population growth: constraints, games, adaptation Stephen T. Abedon
4. Impact of spatial structure on phage population growth Stephen T. Abedon and John Yin
5. Contribution of lysogeny, pseudolysogeny, and starvation to phage ecology Robert V. Miller and Martin J. Day
Part II. Phage Evolutionary Biology:
6. Phage evolutionary biology Siobain Duffy and Paul E. Turner
7. Phage evolution Roger W. Hendrix
8. Evolutionary ecology of multiple phage adsorption and infection Paul E. Turner and Siobain Duffy
9. Patterns in phage experimental adaptation J. J. Bull
Part III. Phage Ecology in Environments:
10. Aquatic phage ecology T. Frede Thingstad, Gunnar Bratbak and Mikal Heldal
11. Phage ecology of terrestrial environments Martin J. Day and Robert V. Miller
12. Phage, bacteria, and food Lawrence D. Goodridge
13. Interaction of bacteriophages with animals Carl R. Merril
14. Phage ecology of bacterial pathogenesis Paul Hyman and Stephen T. Abedon
Part IV. Modeling Phage Ecology:
15. Modeling bacteriophage population growth David Stopar and Stephen T. Abedon
16. Modeling phage plaque growth Stephen M. Krone and Stephen T. Abedon
17. Modeling of bacteriophage therapy Jason J. Gill.