Microbes : an invisible universe
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Washington, D.C. :
ASM Press,
c2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Leeuwenhoek discovers a new galaxy of organisms
- The microbial kingdom has many subjects
- Some microbes prefer life without air
- Important molecules in microbes, plants, and animals
- Where do microbes come from?
- How microbes are isolated and identified
- The care and feeding of microbes
- Hardy survivors in the microbial kingdom
- Microbes and the carbon cycle
- Bacteria that produce and use methane
- Microbes recycle nitrogen
- Bacteria spin the sulfur cycle
- Extraordinary ecology: an amazing diversity of life styles
- Fungi
- Bioenergetics: "energy currency"
- The roles of vitamins
- Microbes and sewage treatment
- Infectious diseases: history of the "germ theory"
- Three giants of infectious disease research: Pasteur, Koch, and Jenner
- Infection and immunity
- Viruses confound microbe hunters
- Killing unwanted microbes
- The central role of DNA: new vistas in microbial biotechnology
- Microbes: Earth's first inhabitants.