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Unseen diversity : the world of bacteria

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  • Author: Dyer, Betsey Dexter
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2008
    Summary:

    Wheaton College biology professor Betsey Dexter Dyer examines the role of bacteria as major players in Earth's biodiversity.

    Contents:
    • Introduction to the bacerial world
    • Hidden in plain sight
    • Seventeenth-century microscopy and the discovery of bacteria
    • A brief history of bacteriology
    • The family tree of bacteria
    • The extremophiles
    • An enormous and diverse group: The proteobacteria
    • An enormous and diverse group: The gram positives
    • Gram positives in the soil community
    • Bacteria as pathogens
    • What about the viruses?
    • Cyanobacteria: The original phorosynthesizers
    • Diverse metabolisms
    • Future directions.
    Genre:
    Math and science
    Sujets: Bacteria | Microbial ecology | Bacteriology
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781456106768