Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 3: The Firmicutes (Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology (Springer-Verlag)) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493979159 ISBN 13: 9781493979158

Publisher: Springer, 2019

Synopsis

Includes a revised taxonomic outline for the Firmicutes based upon the SILVA project as well as a description of more than 1346 species and 235 genera belonging to the phylum Firmicutes, which are also called the low mol% G+C Gram positive prokaryotes. Major taxa to be included are Alicyclobacillus, Bacillus, Clostridium, Enterococcus, Erysipelothrix, Eubacterium, Haloanaerobium, Heliobacterium, Lachnospira, Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, Listeria, Paenibacillus, Peptococcus, Ruminococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Syntrophomonas, Thermoactinomyces, Thermoanaerobacter, Veillonella and 229 additional genera. Includes many medically and industrially important taxa.

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Review

From the reviews of the second edition: “This is the latest massive tome of the new Bergey, and deals exclusively with the Phylum Firmicutes, the low G+C Gram-positive bacteria ... . an essential purchase for University and Technical libraries and larger institutional departments. ... Its readership has to be all microbiologists, molecular biologists and medical and environmental researchers ... .” (Ann P. Wood, Microbiology Today, August, 2010)

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1493979159
• ISBN 13: 9781493979158
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1502
• Editor: Vos Paul, Garrity George, Jones Dorothy, Krieg Noel R., Ludwig Wolfgang, Rainey Fred A., Schleifer Karl-Heinz, Whitman William B.