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Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology

Volume 3: The Firmicutes

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Revised road map to the phylum Firmicutes

    • Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, William B Whitman
    Pages 1-13
  3. Taxonomic outline of the phylum Firmicutes

    • Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, William B Whitman
    Pages 15-17
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 1319-1450

About this book

Includes a revised taxonomic outline for the Firmicutes based upon the SILVA project as well as a description of more than 1346 species and 235 genera belonging to the phylum Firmicutes, which are also called the low mol% G+C Gram positive prokaryotes. Major taxa to be included are Alicyclobacillus, Bacillus, Clostridium, Enterococcus, Erysipelothrix, Eubacterium, Haloanaerobium, Heliobacterium, Lachnospira, Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, Listeria, Paenibacillus, Peptococcus, Ruminococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Syntrophomonas, Thermoactinomyces, Thermoanaerobacter, Veillonella and 229 additional genera. Includes many medically and industrially important taxa.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition: “This is the latest massive tome of the new Bergey, and deals exclusively with the Phylum Firmicutes, the low G+C Gram-positive bacteria … . an essential purchase for University and Technical libraries and larger institutional departments. … Its readership has to be all microbiologists, molecular biologists and medical and environmental researchers … .” (Ann P. Wood, Microbiology Today, August, 2010)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Microbiology, Bergey’s Manual Trust University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    William B. Whitman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology

  • Book Subtitle: Volume 3: The Firmicutes

  • Editors: Paul Vos, George M. Garrity, Dorothy Jones, Noel R. Krieg, Wolfgang Ludwig, Fred A. Rainey, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, William B. Whitman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68489-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-95041-9Published: 15 September 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-7915-8Published: 02 April 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-68489-5Published: 28 January 2011

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: LII, 1450

  • Additional Information: Originally published by Williams & Wilkins, 1984

  • Topics: Life Sciences, general, Biomedicine general, Medical Microbiology, Microbiology, Bacteriology, Applied Microbiology

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