Microbial Life
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2002
- Hardcover
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- Title
- Microbial Life
- Author
- Staley, James T., Lory, Stephen, Perry, Jerome J.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0878936750
- ISBN 13
- 9780878936755
- Edition
- Har/Cdr.
- Item weight
- 4.665 pounds
- Dimensions
- N/A
Chapter summaries, review questions, and suggested readings reinforce key concepts, while boxes highlight recent or significant research, historical essays, and methods and techniques. An interactive Student CD-ROM is included with every copy of the book.
SPECIAL FEATURES of Microbial Life:
* a streamlined text deliberately shortened by ten percent to encourage students to read and grasp the concepts
* full coverage of all aspects of microbiologythe book can serve as a text for a course in Taxonomy or Environmental Microbiology
* a brand new art program completely redone with clear, understandable drawings and appropriate explanations provided by balloon captions
* expanded coverage of evolution of Bacteria and Archaea, structure and function, nutrition and growth parameters, and energetics covering both chemical and photoenergy conservation
* expanded coverage of all aspects of genetics including a new section on genomics
* viral structure and reproduction, up-to-date coverage of taxonomy, microbial diversity and ecosystems
* coverage of important aspects of immunology in a revised single chapter
* a chapter on the important area of beneficial symbioses and on hostmicrobe interactions
* updated and expanded treatment of the role of microbes and viruses in human diseases
* industrial microbiology and environmental microbiology covered in separate chapters
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