Principles of microbial diversity

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"Designed as a key text for upper-level undergraduates majoring in microbiology, genetics, or biology"--Page 4 of cover.

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Full title :Principles of microbial diversity / James W. Brown, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

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"Designed as a key text for upper-level undergraduates majoring in microbiology, genetics, or biology"--Page 4 of cover.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):ASM Press
Place of Publication:Washington, DC
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 390 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 26 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781555814427, 1555814425
oclc:ocn828485368
LC Classification:QR73
Dewey Decimal:579

What is microbial diversity? -- Context and historical baggage -- Phylogenetic information -- Constructing a phylogenetic tree -- Tree construction complexities -- Alternatives to small-subunit rRNA analysis -- The tree of life -- Primitive thermophilic bacteria -- Green phototrophic bacteria -- Proteobacteria -- Gram-positive bacteria -- Spirochetes and bacteroids -- Deinococci, chlamydiae, and planctomycetes -- Bacterial phyla with few or no cultivated species -- Archaea -- Eukaryotes -- Viruses and prions -- Identification of uncultivated organisms -- Sequence-based microbial surveys -- Fluorescent in situ hybridization surveys -- Molecular fingerprinting of microbial populations -- Linking phenotype and phylotype -- Genomics, comparative genomics, and metagenomics -- Origins and early evolution.

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Biodiversitat Biodiversité Biodiversity Biologisk mångfald Diversité microbienne Écologie microbienne Ekologi Environmental Microbiology Microbial diversity Microbial ecology Microbiological Phenomena Mikrobiologie Mikroorganismer Textbooks