The Prokaryotes - Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria (Hardcover, 4th ed. 2014)

"The Prokaryotes" is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Archaea. 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.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	November 2014
First published:	2014
Editors-in-chief:	Eugene Rosenberg
Editors:	Edward F. DeLong • Stephen Lory • Erko Stackebrandt • Fabiano Thompson
Dimensions:	279 x 210mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover • Electronic book text
Pages:	1013
Edition:	4th ed. 2014
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-30198-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Microbiology (non-medical) > Bacteriology
LSN:	3-642-30198-3
Barcode:	9783642301988

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