Microbe / Michele Swanson, Gemma Reguera, Moselio Schaechter, Frederick Neidhardt ; with Rachel Horak, Ph.D., curriculum guidelines editor.
Material type: TextPublisher: Washington, DC : ASM Press [2016]Edition: Second editionDescription: xi, 833 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 29 cmISBN:- 9781555819125 (hbk.) :
- 579 SWA
- QR41.2 .S93 2016
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Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 579 SWA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 223419 |
2nd edition of: Microbe / Moselio Schaechter, John L. Ingraham, Frederick C. Neidhardt. Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, 2006.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I.Fundamentals of microbial life -- 1.A microbial planet -- 2.Prokaryotic cell exterior: envelopes and appendages -- 3.Prokaryotic cell interior -- 4.Microbial cell growth and division -- 5.Microbial metabolism -- 6.Bioenergetics of fueling -- 7.Synthesis of building blocks -- 8.Building macromolecules -- 9.Building the cell envelope -- 10.Inheritance and information flow -- 11.Coordiantion of cell processes -- 12.Succeeding in the environment -- 13.Differentiation and development -- Part II.Microbial diversity -- 14.Bacteria and Archaea -- 15.The fungi -- 16.Protists -- 17.The viruses -- 18.Viral legacy -- Part III.Microbial ecology -- 19.Micribial communities -- 20.Cycles of elements -- 21.Microbial interactions -- Part IV.Microbial pathogenesis -- 22.Infection: the vertebrate host -- 23.Opportunitistic infections by microbiota: MRSA -- 24.Intracellular pathogens: Listeria and Mycobacterium -- 25.Herpes: an ancient human virus prevails -- 27.Zoonoses: how plague emerged from a foodborne illness -- Part V.Putting microbes to work -- 28.A past, a present, and a future with microbes.