The Prokaryotes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. The Family Achromatiaceae

   • Neil Gray, Ian Head

   Pages 1-14

3. The Family Acidithiobacillaceae

   • Donovan P. Kelly, Ann P. Wood

   Pages 15-25

4. The Family Aeromonadaceae

   • Geert Huys

   Pages 27-57

5. The Family Alcanivoraceae

   • Cynthia B. Silveira, Fabiano Thompson

   Pages 59-67

6. The Family Alteromonadaceae

   • Mario López-Pérez, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera

   Pages 69-92

7. The Family Beggiatoaceae

   • Andreas Teske, Verena Salman

   Pages 93-134

8. The Family Cardiobacteriaceae

   • Edward R. B. Moore, Sashka A. Mihaylova, Margarita Gomila

   Pages 135-146

9. The Family Celerinatantimonadaceae

   • Charles R. Lovell

   Pages 147-150

10. The Family Chromatiaceae

    • Johannes F. Imhoff

    Pages 151-178

11. The Family Colwelliaceae

    • John P. Bowman

    Pages 179-195

12. The Family Coxiellaceae

    • Stephen Lory

    Pages 197-198

13. The Family Ectothiorhodospiraceae

    • Aharon Oren

    Pages 199-222

14. The Family Enterobacteriaceae

    • Sophie Octavia, Ruiting Lan

    Pages 225-286

15. The Family Francisellaceae

    • Duncan J. Colquhoun, Pär Larsson, Samuel Duodu, Mats Forsman

    Pages 287-314

16. The Family Granulosicoccaceae

    • Elena P. Ivanova, Hayden K. Webb

    Pages 315-317

17. The Families Hahellaceae and Litoricolaceae

    • Hayden K. Webb, Song Ha Nguyen, Elena P. Ivanova

    Pages 319-323

18. The Family Halomonadaceae

    • Rafael R. de la Haba, David R. Arahal, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Antonio Ventosa

    Pages 325-360

19. The Family Idiomarinaceae

    • Luciana Albuquerque, Milton S. da Costa

    Pages 361-385

20. The Family Legionellaceae

    • Stephen Lory

    Pages 387-389

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.

The following volumes are published consecutively within the 4th Edition:

Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations

Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology

Prokaryotic Physiology and Biochemistry

Applied Bacteriology and Biotechnology

Human Microbiology

Actinobacteria

Firmicutes

Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria

Gammaproteobacteria

Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria

Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and the Archaea

 

• Bacteria
• Ecology
• Infectious Diseases
• Microbes
• Prokaryotes

• 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

• Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, USA

  Edward F. DeLong

• Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, 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; Fabiano Thompson, Professor at Center of Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Stephen Lory, Professor at Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Erko Stackebrandt, Director of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany;

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