Biodiversity Of Microbial Life
Biodiversity of Microbial Life places the importance and novelty of the diversity of the microbial world in perspective with the biodiversity of plants and animals. Microbial diversity has driven the evolution of all life on Earth as well as the nutrient cycles, which are key to the operation of the biosphere. Microorganisms live in all ecosystems, even extreme environments not habitable to other organisms. Noted experts including Carl Woese, the originator of the Tree of Life, and Rita...
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Without even trying to name them all, US contributors in several biological and earth sciences discuss the major issues of biodiversity among the Bacteria, Archaea, and microbial Eucarya as perceived by microbiologists. They do, however illustrate that diversity with abundance examples. They also look at how microbial diversity differs from that of plants and animals, how microbial diversity has evolved over time, the physiological and metabolic—rather than mere species—diversity, terrestrial and marine habitat types for microbes, symbiosis between microorganisms and larger creatures, extreme environments, and using microorganisms in biotechnology. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
PrefaceContributorsPerspective: Microbiology in TransitionIEvolution and Diversity of Microorganisms in Ecosystems11A Microbiological Perspective of Biodiversity32Natural History of Microorganisms Inhabiting Hot Spring Microbial Mat Communities: Clues to the Origin of Microbial Diversity and Implications for Microbiology and Macrobiology253Microbial Mats and Biofilms: Evolution, Structure, and Function of Fixed Microbial Communities49IIPhysiological and Metabolic Diversity of Microorganisms1014Evolution of Energy Metabolism1035Evolution and Diversity of Photosynthethic Prokaryotes1216Diversity of Microbial Heterotrophic Metabolism155IIIMicrobial Diversity of Major Ecosystems1817Exploring the Diversity of Soil - A Microbial Rain Forest1838Marine Prokaryote Diversity209IVBiodiversity and Role of Microorganisms in Plant and Animal Symbioses2359Plant-Microbe Symbioses: An Evolutionary Survey23710Insights from Insect-Microbe Symbioses28911Getting in Touch with Your Prokaryotic Self: Mammal-Microbe Interactions315VMicrobial Diversity of Extreme Environments34312Microbial Diversity of Marine and Terrestrial Thermal Springs34513And Some Like it Cold: Sea Ice Microbiology42314The Deep Subsurface Biosphere439VIMicrobial Diversity, Biotechnology and the Future of Biodiversity47515Exploiting Microbial Diversity47716The Future of Microbial Diversity Research521Index535
\ From the Publisher"...memorizing bacterial taxa or biochemical pathways in the absence of an evolutionary framework leaves much to be desired. If you or your students would be more enthusiastic if this were done in association with evolutionary concepts...then you will enjoy learning more about the latest research-this book is an excellent place to start." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 77, No. 3, September 2002)\ \ \
