Principles of modern microbiology /
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| Author / Creator: | Wheelis, Mark. |
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| Imprint: | Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2008. |
| Description: | xxviii, 496 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7993923 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to Microbiology
- History of Microbiology
- Method of Microbiology
- Microscopy
- Pure culture technique
- Procaryotic Cell Structure and Function
- The cell envelope
- The cell membrane
- The nucleoid
- The bacterial cytoskeleton
- The cytoplasm
- Surface layers and appendages
- Motility
- Cell Structure and Function in Protists
- The endomembrane system
- Mitochondria and chloroplasts
- The cytoskeletal system
- Motility
- The cell wall and pellicle
- The contractile vacuole
- Reproduction in protists
- Viruses and Other Acellular Entities
- Attachment and penetration
- Macromolecular synthesis
- Assembly and release
- Lysogeny and latency
- Viral taxonomy
- Viroids and prions
- Microbial Metabolism: Fermentation and Respiration
- Microbial nutrition, central metabolism, and biosynthesis
- Energy metabolism
- Chemoheterotrophic respiration
- Chemoautotrophic respiration
- Microbial Metabolism: Photosynthesis, Autotrophic Growth, and Nitrogen Fixation
- Photosynthesis
- Type I photosynthesis
- Type II photosynthesis
- Type I/II photosynthesis
- Carbon dioxide fixation
- Nitrogen fixation
- Microbial Growth
- Growth and division of individual cells
- Microbial population growth
- The effect of environmental conditions on growth
- Procaryotic Genome Orgainzation and Regulation
- Procaryotic genome structure and transcription
- Regulation of individual transcriptional units
- Global control by modulons
- Microbial Behavior and Development
- Tactic behavior
- Dimorphic cell division in Caulobacter
- Endospore formation in Bacillus
- Heterocyst formation in Anabaena
- Fruiting body formation and sporulation in Myxococcus
- Microbial Genetics
- Genetic mapping
- Transformation
- Conjugation
- Transduction
- Genomic mapping
- Genetic recombination in eucaryotic microbes
- Microbial Systematics
- Procaryoti Microbes
- Bacterial diversity
- The archaea
- Eucaryotic Microbes
- Anaerobic protozoa
- Aerobic protozoa
- The algae
- Fungi
- Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology
- Biogeochemistry
- Microbial habitats
- Symbiosis
- Host Defenses against Microbial Infection
- Constitutive (innate) host defenses
- Inducible (adaptive) host defenses-inflammation, interferon, and RNA interference
- Inducible host defenses-the immune system and humoral immunity
- Inducible defenses-cell mediated immunity
- Microbial Pathogenesis
- Invasiveness
- Toxigenicity
- Epidemiology and Human Disease
- Human Exploitation Microbes
- Useful products from microbes
- Biocontrol
- Wastewater treatment
- Biological weapons.
