Editors:
The most complete resource on the biology of prokaryotes
Represents molecular, applied and general prokaryotic biology, bacterial communities, and human bacteriology
Covers all taxonomic diversity using the family level to delineate chapters
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (79 entries)
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Front Matter
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Section I Archaea
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Front Matter
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About this book
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
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Eugene Rosenberg
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Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Edward F. DeLong
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Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, USA
Edward F. DeLong
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Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
Stephen Lory
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Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany
Erko Stackebrandt
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Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Brazil
Fabiano Thompson
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Prokaryotes
Book Subtitle: Other Major Lineages of Bacteria and The Archaea
Editors: Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F. DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt, Fabiano Thompson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38954-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38953-5Published: 18 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38954-2Published: 23 October 2014
Edition Number: 4
Number of Pages: XXVII, 1028
Number of Illustrations: 56 b/w illustrations, 197 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology