Accessing uncultivated microorganisms
Subtitle: from the environment to organisms and genomes and back
By: edited by Karsten Zengler.
Contributors: Zengler, Karsten.
Publisher: ASM Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781555814069
Subjects: Microbial diversity; Microbial ecology; Microbiology -- Cultures and culture media; Environmental Microbiology; Bacteria -- growth & development; Cell Culture Techniques; Fungi -- growth & development; Genetics, Microbial; Microbiological Techniques -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Does cultivation still matter? / Karsten Zengler; title: The human intestinal microbiota and its impact on human health / Mirjana Rajili-Stojanovi, Willem M. de Vos, and Erwin G. Zoetendal; title: The uncountables / William T. Sloan, Christopher Quince, and Thomas P. Curtis; title: The missing fungi : new insights from culture-independent molecular studies of soil / S.K. Schmidt ... [et al.]; title: The diversity of free-living protists seen and unseen, cultured and uncultured / David A. Caron and Rebecca J. Gast; title: Microbial biogeography : patterns in microbial diversity across space and time / Noah Fierer; title: The least common denominator : species or operational taxonomic units? / Ramon Rosselló-Mora and Arantxa López-López; title: Measuring diversity / Jed A. Fuhrman; title: Metagenomics as a tool to study biodiversity / Karen E. Nelson; title: New cultivation strategies for terrestrial microorganisms / Peter H. Janssen; title: Cultivation of marine symbiotic microorganisms / Todd A. Ciche; title: Methods to study consortia and mixed cultures / Boran Kartal and Marc Strous; title: Microbial cell individuality / Simon V. Avery; title: Nanomechanical methods to study single cells / Ramya Desikan ... [et al.]; title: Single cell genomics / Martin Keller, Christopher W. Schadt, and Anthony V. Palumbo; title: How many genes does a cell need? / Hamilton O. Smith ... [et al.].