The Prokaryotes : Applied Bacteriology and Biotechnology / edited by Edward F. DeLong, Erko Stackebrandt, Stephen Lory, Fabiano Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DeLong, Edward F., editor.

Stackebrandt, Erko, editor.

Lory, Stephen, editor.

Thompson, Fabiano Lopes, editor.

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Biomedical and Life Sciences (Springer-11642)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microbiology.

Local Subjects:

Microbiology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (139 illustrations, 40 illustrations in color. eReference)

Edition:

Fourth edition 2013.

Contained In:

Springer Nature eReference

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface

Foreword

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Organic Acid and Solvent Production: Acetic, Lactic, Gluconic, Succinic and Polyhydroxyalkanoic Acids

Organic Acid and Solvent Production: Butanol, Acetone and Isopropanol; 1,3- and 1,2-Propanediol Production; and 2,3-Butanediol Production

Organic Acid and Solvent Production: Propionic and Butyric Acids and Ethanol

Amino Acid Production

Microbial Exopolysaccharides

Bacterial Enzymes

Diversity and Biotechnological Applications of Prokaryotic Enzymes

Bacteria in Food and Beverage Production

Bacterial Pharmaceutical Products

Biosurfactants

Bioremediation

Biodeterioration

Microbial Biofilms

Biofuels

The Metabolic Pathways of Biodegradation.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-642-31331-8

9783642313318

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