The Prokaryotes

1. Front Matter

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2. Section 1: Prokaryotic Communities

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Structure and Function of Microbial Communities

      • David A. Stahl, Jason J. Flowers, Meredith Hullar, Seana Davidson

      Pages 3-30

   3. Quantitative and Theoretical Microbial Population Biology

      • Martin F. Polz, William P. Hanage

      Pages 31-42

   4. Alpine and Arctic Soil Microbial Communities

      • M. Rhodes, J. Knelman, R. C. Lynch, J. L. Darcy, D. R. Nemergut, S. K. Schmidt

      Pages 43-55

   5. Plant Rhizosphere Microbial Communities

      • Dror Minz, Maya Ofek, Yitzhak Hadar

      Pages 56-84

   6. Tropical Soil Microbial Communities

      • Andrew Macrae, Rosalie R. R. Coelho, Raquel Peixoto, Alexandre S. Rosado

      Pages 85-95

   7. Freshwater Microbial Communities

      • Jakob Pernthaler

      Pages 97-112

   8. Pelagic Oxygen Minimum Zone Microbial Communities

      • Osvaldo Ulloa, Jody J. Wright, Lucy Belmar, Steven J. Hallam

      Pages 113-122

   9. Marine Deep Sediment Microbial Communities

      • Andreas Teske

      Pages 123-138

   10. Sea-Ice Microbial Communities

       • John P. Bowman

       Pages 139-161

   11. Coral Reef Bacterial Communities

       • David G. Bourne, Nicole S. Webster

       Pages 163-187

3. Section 2: Ecophysiology

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Planktonic Versus Sessile Life of Prokaryotes

      • Kevin C. Marshall*

      Pages 191-201

   3. The Phototrophic Way of Life

      • Jörg Overmann, Ferran Garcia-Pichel

      Pages 203-257

   4. The Anaerobic Way of Life

      • Ruth A. Schmitz, Rolf Daniel, Uwe Deppenmeier, Gerhard Gottschalk

      Pages 259-273

   5. The Chemolithotrophic Prokaryotes

      • Donovan P. Kelly, Ann P. Wood

      Pages 275-287

   6. Bacterial Behavior

      • Judith P. Armitage, Kathryn A. Scott

      Pages 289-316

   7. Prokaryotic Life Cycles

      • Lawrence J. Shimkets

      Pages 317-336

   8. Life at High Temperatures

      • Rainer Jaenicke, Reinhard Sterner

      Pages 337-374

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to delineate chapters. Different from other resources, this new Springer product includes not only taxonomy, but also prokaryotic biology and technology of taxa in a broad context. Technological aspects highlight the usefulness of prokaryotes in processes and products, including biocontrol agents and as genetics tools. The content of the expanded fourth edition is divided into two parts: Part 1 contains review chapters dealing with the most important general concepts in molecular, applied and general prokaryote biology; Part 2 describes the known properties of specific taxonomic groups. Two completely new sections have been added to Part 1: bacterial communities and human bacteriology. The bacterial communities section reflects the growing realization that studies on pure cultures of bacteria have led to an incomplete picture of the microbial world for two fundamental reasons: the vast majority of bacteria in soil, water and associated with biological tissues are currently not culturable, and that an understanding of microbial ecology requires knowledge on how different bacterial species interact with each other in their natural environment. The new section on human microbiology deals with bacteria associated with healthy humans and bacterial pathogenesis. Each of the major human diseases caused by bacteria is reviewed, from identifying the pathogens by classical clinical and non-culturing techniques to the biochemical mechanisms of the disease process. The 4th edition of The Prokaryotes is the most complete resource on the biology of prokaryotes.

• Bacteria
• Ecology
• Infectious Diseases
• Microbes
• Prokaryotes
• Systematic

From the book reviews:

“This book … edited and written by great scientists covers essential contributions on different types of prokaryotic communities as well as on the prokaryotic functions in different environments. … This volume, as well as the whole series, should be available in every large scientific library.” (Ioan I. Ardelean, Bulletin of Micro and Nanoelectrotechnologies, Vol. 5 (3-4), December, 2014)

• Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Eugene Rosenberg

• Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Edward F. DeLong

• Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  Stephen Lory

• Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

  Erko Stackebrandt

• Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Brazil

  Fabiano Thompson

Eugene Rosenberg, Professor of Microbiology at Tel Aviv University, Israel

Edward F. DeLong, Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Stephen Lory, Professor at Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Erko Stackebrandt, German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, DSMZ, Braunschweig, Germany

Fabiano Thompson, Professor at Center of Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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