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The Prokaryotes, Volume 1 Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations

By: Eugene Rosenberg(Editor), Edward F DeLong(Editor), Stephen Lory(Editor), Erko Stackebrandt(Editor), Fabiano Thompson(Editor)
628 pages, 76 colour & 113 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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About this book

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to delineate chapters.

Different from other resources, this new Springer product includes not only taxonomy, but also prokaryotic biology and technology of taxa in a broad context. Technological aspects highlight the usefulness of prokaryotes in processes and products, including biocontrol agents and as genetics tools.

The content of the expanded fourth edition is divided into two parts: Part 1 contains review chapters dealing with the most important general concepts in molecular, applied and general prokaryote biology; Part 2 describes the known properties of specific taxonomic groups.

Two completely new sections have been added to Part 1: bacterial communities and human bacteriology. The bacterial communities section reflects the growing realization that studies on pure cultures of bacteria have led to an incomplete picture of the microbial world for two fundamental reasons: the vast majority of bacteria in soil, water and associated with biological tissues are currently not culturable, and that an understanding of microbial ecology requires knowledge on how different bacterial species interact with each other in their natural environment. The new section on human microbiology deals with bacteria associated with healthy humans and bacterial pathogenesis. Each of the major human diseases caused by bacteria is reviewed, from identifying the pathogens by classical clinical and non-culturing techniques to the biochemical mechanisms of the disease process.

The 4th edition of The Prokaryotes is the most complete resource on the biology of prokaryotes.

Contents

- Preface
- Foreword
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors

(Section 1) Biology of Bacteria and Archaea
- How We Do, Don't and Should Look at Bacteria and Bacteriology
- What Is a Prokaryote?
- Prokaryotes and Their Habitats
- Origin of Life: RNA World versus Autocatalytic Anabolism
- Morphological and Physiological Diversity
- Prokaryote Characterization and Identification
- Principles of Enrichment, Isolation, Cultivation, and Preservation of Prokaryotes
- Comparative Genomics
- Defining Taxonomic Ranks
- Covering All the Bases: Next-Generation Sequence Data and the Microevolution of Bacterial Pathogens
- Public Service Collections and Biological Resource Centres of Microorganisms (Biological resource centres)
- Repositories for Patented and Safeguarded Material, Budapest Treaty, and Safe Deposit
- Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology
- Genome and Post-genome Technology

(section 2) Symbiotic Associations
- Role of Microorganisms in the Adaptation, Development, and Evolution of Animals and Plants: the Hologenome Concept
- Cyanobacterial-Plant Symbioses
- Root and Stem Nodule Bacteria of Legumes
- Symbiotic Associations Between Ciliates and Prokaryotes
- Bacteriocyte-Associated Endosymbionts of Insects
- Vibrio fischeri: A Bioluminescent Light-Organ Symbiont of the Bobtail Squid Euprymna scolopes
- Rumen Symbioses
- Symbiotic Associations Between Termites and Prokaryotes
- Marine Chemosynthetic Symbioses

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By: Eugene Rosenberg(Editor), Edward F DeLong(Editor), Stephen Lory(Editor), Erko Stackebrandt(Editor), Fabiano Thompson(Editor)
628 pages, 76 colour & 113 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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