Planctomycetes
Subtitle: cell structure, origins and biology
By: John A. Fuerst, editor
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781627035019; 9781627035026
Subjects: Marine bacteria; Marine microbiology; Cell physiology; Planctomycetales
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: History, classification and cultivation of the planctomycetes  -- Cheryl Jenkins and James T. Staley; title: Cell compartmentalization and endocytosis in planctomycetes: structure and function in complex bacteria  -- John A. Fuerst, Richard I. Webb, and Evgeny Sagulenko; title: Structural aspects of MC proteins of PVC superphylum members  -- Damien P. Devos; title: Cell biology of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria: unique prokaryotes with an energy-conserving intracellular compartment  -- Sarah Neumann, Muriel C.F. van Teeseling and Laura van Niftrik; title: Acidophilic planctomycetes: expanding the horizons of new planctomycete diversity  -- Svetlana N. Dedysh and Irina S. Kulichevskaya; title: Toward the development of genetic tools for Planctomycetes  -- Mareike Jogler and Christian Jogler; title: Genomics and bioinformatics of the PVC superphylum  -- Olga K. Kamneva, Daniel H. Haft, Stormy J. Knight, Davide A. Liberles, and Naomi L. Ward; title: Distribution and evolution of C1 transfer enzymes and evolution of the planctomycetes  -- Ludmila Chistoserdova; title: Unusual members of the PVC superphylum: the methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia genus "Methylacidiphilum"  -- Christine E. Sharp, Huub J.M. Op den Camp, Ivica Tamas, and Peter F. Dunfield; title: Phyla related to Planctomycetes: members of phylum Chlamydiae and their implications for Planctomycetes cell biology  -- Claire Bertelli and Gilbert Greub; title: Planctomycetes: their evolutionary implications for models for origins of eukaryotes and the eukaryote nucleus and endomembranes   -- John A. Fuerst and Evgeny Sagulenko; title: Final word: the future of planctomycetology and related studies  -- John A. Fuerst; title: Index.