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The Prokaryotes

Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology

  • Reference work
  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Eugene Rosenberg

    1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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  2. Edward F. DeLong

    1. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

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  3. Stephen Lory

    1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

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  4. Erko Stackebrandt

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

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  5. Fabiano Thompson

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

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  • 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

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Table of contents (23 entries)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Section 1: Prokaryotic Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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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

      Pages 1-1
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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
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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.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

About the editors

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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Prokaryotes

  • Book Subtitle: Prokaryotic Communities and Ecophysiology

  • Editors: Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F. DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt, Fabiano Thompson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30123-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-30122-3Published: 02 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30123-0Published: 05 February 2013

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XX, 528

  • Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Microbiology

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