The Prokaryotes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Section I Deltaproteobacteria

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Bdellovibrio and Like Organisms

      • Or Rotem, Zohar Pasternak, Edouard Jurkevitch

      Pages 3-17

   3. The Family Cystobacteraceae

      • Débora Farage Knupp dos Santos, Cynthia Maria Kyaw, Tatiana Amabile De Campos, Robert Neil Gerard Miller, Eliane Ferreira Noronha, Mercedes Maria da Cunha Bustamante et al.

      Pages 19-40

   4. The Family Desulfarculaceae

      • Jan Kuever

      Pages 41-44

   5. The Family Desulfobacteraceae

      • Jan Kuever

      Pages 45-73

   6. The Family Desulfobulbaceae

      • Jan Kuever

      Pages 75-86

   7. The Family Desulfohalobiaceae

      • Jan Kuever

      Pages 87-95

   8. The Family Desulfomicrobiaceae

      • Jan Kuever, Alexander Galushko

      Pages 97-102

   9. The Family Desulfonatronaceae

      • Jan Kuever

      Pages 103-106

   10. The Family Desulfovibrionaceae

       • Jan Kuever

       Pages 107-133

   11. The Family Desulfurellaceae

       • Anthony C. Greene

       Pages 135-142

   12. The Family Desulfuromonadaceae

       • Anthony C. Greene

       Pages 143-155

   13. The Family Geobacteraceae

       • Wilfred F. M. Röling

       Pages 157-172

   14. The Family Haliangiaceae

       • Ronald Garcia, Rolf Müller

       Pages 173-181

   15. The Family Kofleriaceae

       • Elke Lang

       Pages 183-189

   16. The Family Myxococcaceae

       • Ronald Garcia, Rolf Müller

       Pages 191-212

   17. The Family Nannocystaceae

       • Ronald Garcia, Rolf Müller

       Pages 213-229

   18. The Family Nitrospinaceae

       • Sebastian Lücker, Holger Daims

       Pages 231-237

   19. The Family Phaselicystidaceae

       • Ronald Garcia, Rolf Müller

       Pages 239-245

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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