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9780471254331

Biodiversity of Microbial Life Foundation of Earth's Biosphere

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471254331

  • ISBN10:

    0471254339

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Liss
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Summary

Biodiversity of Microbial Life is an essential resource for all biologists interested in biodiversity.

Author Biography

A professor in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, Dr. James T. Staley received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in 1967. He also serves as Chairman of Bergey's Manual Trust and holds positions on the editorial boards of Geomicrobiology, Diversity and Conservation, and Environmental Microbiology. His primary research interest is general microbiology with an emphasis on microbial evolution, diversity, ecology and bacterial taxonomy.

Table of Contents

Preface.
Contributors.
Perspective: Microbiology in Transition (C. Woese).
PART I: EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF MICROORGANISMS IN ECOSYSTEMS.
A Microbiological Perspective of Biodiversity (J. Staley).
Natural History of Microorganisms Inhabiting Hot Spring Microbial Mat Communities: Clues to the Origin of Microbial Diversity and Implications for Microbiology and Marcobiology (D. Ward, et al.).
Microbial Mats and Biofilms: Evolution, Structure, and Function of Fixed Microbial Communities (A. Teske & D. Stahl).
PART II: PHYSIOLOGICAL AND METABOLIC DIVERSITY OF MICROORGANISMS.
Evolution of Energy Metabolism (J. Leigh).
Evolution and Diversity of Photosynthethic Prokaryotes (B. Pierson).
Diversity of Microbial Heterotrophic Metabolism (J. Perry).
PART III: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY OF MAJOR ECOSYSTEMS.
Exploring the Diversity of Soil&mdaaash;A Microbial Rain Forest (D. Buckley & T. Schmidt).
Marine Prokaryote Diversity (M. Suzuki & E. DeLong).
PART IV: BIODIVERSITY AND ROLE OF MICROORGANISMS IN PLANT AND ANIMAL SYMBIOSES.
Plant--Microbe Symbioses: An Evolutionary Survey (R. Goodman & J. Weisz).
Insights from Insect-Microbe Symbioses (M. Kane & U. Mueller).
Getting in Touch with Your Prokaryotic Self: Mammal--Microbe Interactions (A. Salyers & J. Shipman).
PART V: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY OF EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS.
Microbial Diversity of Marine and Terrestrial Thermal Springs (A.-L. Reysenbach, et al.).
And Some Like it Cold: Sea Ice Microbiology (J. Staley, et al.).
The Deep Subsurface Biosphere (T. Stevens).
PART VI: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF BIODIVERSITY.
Exploiting Microbial Diversity (A. Kuo & G. Garrity).
The Future of Microbial Diversity Research (R. Colwell).
Index

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