Microbial Diversity
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Author(s): O. Ogunseitan
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 0632047089
Format: softback
292pp
Price: £32.95
Review Date: 07 January 2005
Review: This textbook gives an analysis of the concepts and methods that have facilitated recent advances in the understanding of microbial diversity, and a clear linkage to the importance of this understanding for global physicochemical and biological processes that are easily recognisable to investigators of natural sciences. The book is divided into two main parts: the first deals with conceptual and methodological issues and the second on principles, applications, and opportunities for research. There are chapters on: the concept of microbial species; microscopic methods for assessing microbial diversity; culture methods; molecular and genomic methods; environmental evolution; biochemical cycling of carbon and nitrogen; biochemical cycling of phosphorus, sulphur, metals and trace elements; cross-species interactions between prokaryotes; interactions between micro-organisms and large eukaryotes; and microbial diversity and global environmental issues.