Biodiversity of microbial life
Subtitle: foundation of Earth's biosphere
By: edited by James T. Staley, Anna-Louise Reysenbach
Contributors: Staley, James T; Reysenbach, Anna-Louise
Series: Wiley series in ecological and applied microbiology
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Microbial ecology; Bacterial diversity; Microorganisms -- Evolution
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Evolution and diversity of microorganisms in ecosystems.  A microbiological of biodiveristy / James T. Staley; title: Natural history of microorganisms inhabiting hot spring microbial mat communities: clues to the origin of microbial diversity and implications for microbiology and macrobiology / David M. Ward ... [et al.]; title: Microbial mats and biofilms: evolution, structure, and function of fixed microbial communities / Andreas P. Teske and David Stahl.  Physiological and metabolic diversity of microorganisms.  Evolution of energy metabolism / John A. Leigh; title: Evolution and diversity of photosynthethic prokaryotes / Beverly K. Pierson; title: Diversity of microbial heterotrophic metabolism / Jerome J. Perry.  Microbial diversity of major ecosystems.  Exploring the diversity of soil - a microbial rain forest / Daniel H. Buckley and Thomas M. Schmidt; title: Marine prokaryote diversity / Marcelino T. Suzuki and Edward F. DeLong.  Biodiversity and role of microorganisms in plant and animal symbioses.  Plant-microbe symbioses: an evolutionary survey / Robert M. Goodman and Jeremy B. Weisz; title: Insights from insect-microbe symbioses / Matthew D. Kane and Ulrich G. Mueller; title: Getting in touch with your prokaryotic self: mammal-microbe interactions / Abigail A. Salyers and Joseph A. Shipman. Microbial diversity of extreme environments.  Microbial diversity of marine and terrestrial thermal springs / Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Dorothee Götz, and Dinesh Yernool; title: And some like it cold: sea ice microbiology / James T. Staley, Karen Junge, and Jody Deming; title: The deep subsurface biosphere / Todd O. Stevens.  Microbial diversity, biotechnology and the future of biodiversity.  Exploiting microbial diversity / Austin Kuo and George M. Garrity; title: The future of microbial diversity research / Rita R. Colwell