Microbiology: an evolving science

✍ Scribed by Joan Slonczewski, John Watkins Foster, Kathy M. Gillen

• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1282
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Microbiology: An Evolving Science promotes a clear understanding of this rapidly advancing field in two distinctive ways.First, an emphasis on current research, genomics, and molecular genetics enables students to learn how microbiologists think as they master the discipline's foundational topics. Second, a stunning and consistently executed art program helps students visualize key microbiological processes and structures.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 21
About the Authors......Page 32
Part 1: The Microbial Cell......Page 34
1 Microbial Life: Origin and Discovery......Page 37
2 Observing the Microbial Cell......Page 71
3 Cell Structure and Function......Page 105
4 Bacterial Culture, Growth, and Development......Page 147
5 Environmental Influences and Control of Microbial Growth......Page 181
6 Virus Structure and Function......Page 213
Part 2: Genes and Genomes......Page 250
7 Genomes and Chromosomes......Page 253
8 Transcription, Translation, and Bioinformatics......Page 289
9 Gene Transfer, Mutations, and Genome Evolution......Page 335
10 Molecular Regulation......Page 377
11 Viral Molecular Biology......Page 421
12 Molecular Techniques and Biotechnology......Page 463
Part 3: Metabolism and Biochemistry......Page 490
13 Energetics and Catabolism......Page 493
14 Respiration, Lithotrophy, and Photolysis......Page 537
15 Biosynthesis......Page 579
16 Food and Industrial Microbiology......Page 621
Part 4: Microbial Diversity and Ecology......Page 658
17 Origins and Evolution......Page 661
18 Bacterial Diversity......Page 707
19 Archaeal Diversity......Page 753
20 Eukaryotic Diversity......Page 787
21 Microbial Ecology......Page 825
22 Microbes and the Global Environment......Page 863
Part 5: Medicine and Immunology......Page 892
23 Human Microflora and Nonspecific Host Defenses......Page 895
24 The Adaptive Immune Response......Page 927
25 Microbial Pathogenesis......Page 969
26 Microbial Diseases......Page 1011
27 Antimicrobial Chemotherapy......Page 1061
28 Clinical Microbiology and Epidemiology......Page 1095
Appendix 1: Biological Molecules A-......Page 1129
Appendix 2: Introductory Cell Biology: Eukaryotic Cells A-......Page 1149
Answers to Thought Questions AQ-......Page 1167
Glossary G-......Page 1201
Index I-......Page 1229