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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joanne M Willey; Linda Sherwood; Christopher J Woolverton; Lansing M Prescott |
| ISBN: | 0072992913 9780072992915 0073302082 9780073302089 9780071102315 0071102310 |
| OCLC Number: | 71044581 |
| Description: | xx, 1088, [107] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Other Titles: | Microbiology |
| Responsibility: | Joanne M. Willey, Linda M. Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton. |
| More information: |
Table of Contents:
Part I. Introduction to Microbiology -- 1. The History and Scope of Microbiology -- 2. The Study of Microbial Structure: Microscopy and Specimen Preparation -- 3. Procaryotic Cell Structure and Function -- 4. Eucaryotic Cell Structure and Function -- Part II. Microbial Nutrition, Growth, and Control -- 5. Microbial Nutrition -- 6. Microbial Growth -- 7. Control of Microorganisms by Physical and Chemical Agents -- Part III. Microbial Metabolism -- 8. Metabolism: Energy, Enzymes, and Regulation -- 9. Metabolism: Energy Release and Conservation -- 10. Metabolism: The Use of Energy in Biosynthesis -- Part IV. Microbial Molecular Biology and Genetics -- 11. Microbial Genetics: Gene Structure, Regulation, and Expression -- 12. Microbial Genetics: Regulation of Gene Expression -- 13. Microbial Genetics: Mechanisms of Genetic Variation -- Part V. DNA Technology and Genomics -- 14. Recombinant DNA Technology -- 15. Microbial Genomics -- Part VI. The Viruses -- 16. The Viruses: Introduction and General Characteristics -- 17. The Viruses: Viruses of Bacteria and Archaea -- 18. The Viruses: Eucaryotic Viruses and Other Acellular Infectious Agents -- Part VII. The Diversity of the Microbial World -- 19. Microbial Evolution, Taxonomy, and Diversity -- 20. The Archaea -- 21. Bacteria: The Deinococci and Nonproteobacteria Gram Negatives -- 22. Bacteria: The Proteobacteria -- 23. Bacteria: The Low G + C Gram Positives -- 24. Bacteria: The High G + C Gram Positives -- 25. The Protists -- 26. The Fungi (Eumycota) -- Part VIII. Ecology and Symbiosis -- 27. Biogeochemical Cycling & Introductory Microbial Ecology -- 28. Microorganisms in Marine and Fresh Water Environments -- 29. Microorganisms in Terrestrial Environments -- 30. Microbial Interactions -- Part IX. Interaction Between Human Host and Pathogenic Microbes -- 31. Nonspecific (Innate) Host Resistance -- 32. Specific (Adaptive) Immunity -- 33. Pathogenicity of Microorganisms -- Part X. Agents of Infectious Disease and Their Control -- 34. Antimicrobial Chemotherapy -- 35. Clinical Microbiology and Immunology -- 36. The Epidemiology of Infectious Disease -- 37. Human Diseases Caused by Viruses and Prions -- 38. Human Diseases Caused by Bacteria -- 39. Human Diseases Caused by Fungi and Protists -- Part XI. Food and Industrial Microbiology -- 40. Microbiology of Food -- 41. Applied and Industrial Microbiology -- Appendix I. A Review of the Chemistry of Biological Molecules -- Appendix B. Common Metabolic Pathways -- Glossary.
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