The Prokaryotes : a handbook on habitats, isolation, and identification of bacteria
The purpose ofthis brief Foreword is to make you, the reader, hungry for the scientific feast that follows. These two volumes on the prokary otes offer a truly unique scientific menu-a comprehensive assembly of articles, exhibiting the biochemical depth and remarkable physiological and morphological diversity of prokaryote life. The size of the volumes might initially discourage the unprepared mind from being attracted to the study of prokaryote life, for this landmark assemblage thoroughly documents the wealth of present knowledge. But in confronting the reader with the state of the art, the Handbook also defines where new work needs to be done on well-studied bacteria as well as on unusual or poorly studied organisms. There are basically two ways of doing research with microbes. A classical approach is first to define the phenomenon to be studied and then to select the organism accordingly. Another way is to choose a specific organism and go where it leads. The pursuit of an unusual microbe brings out the latent hunter in all of us. The intellectual chal lenges of the chase frequently test our ingenuity to the limit. Sometimes the quarry repeatedly escapes, but the final capture is indeed a wonder ful experience. For many of us, these simple rewards are sufficiently gratifying so that we have chosen to spend our scientific lives studying these unusual creatures
Field guides
1 online resource (2 volumes (xxvii, 2284, 156 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates)) : illustrations
9783662131879, 9783662131893, 3662131870, 3662131897
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v. 1. Introductory essays. The phototrophic prokaryotes. The gliding bacteria. The sheathed bacteria, some gas-vacuolate bacteria. The budding and/or appendaged bacteria. The spirochetes. Some helical and curved bacteria. The pseudomonads and relatives. Some dinitrogen-fixing bacteria and relatives. Taxonomically heterogeneous, physiologically defined assemblages of bacterial genera. The obligately chemolithotrophic bacteria. Small, aerobic, gram-negative bacteria of medical importance
v. 2. The families Enterobacteriaceae and Vibrionaceae, some marine bacteria. Miscellaneous, facultatively anaerobic, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria. Anaerobic, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria. Gram-negative cocci and related rod-shaped bacteria. Gram-positive cocci. Gram-positive, asporogeneous, rod-shaped bacteria. The endospore-forming bacteria. The coryneform bacteria. The actinomycetes. Some obligately symbiotic bacteria. Wall-deficient bacteria
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