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The Prokaryotes

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Editors:
  1. Eugene Rosenberg

    1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  2. Edward F. DeLong

    1. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
      Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, USA

  3. Stephen Lory

    1. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

  4. Erko Stackebrandt

    1. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

  5. Fabiano Thompson

    1. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Brazil

  • The most complete resource on the biology of prokaryotes
  • Represents molecular, applied and general prokaryotic biology, bacterial communities, and human bacteriology
  • Covers all taxonomic diversity using the family level to delineate chapters
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Archaea. This fourth edition of The Prokaryotes is organized to cover all taxonomic diversity, using the family level to delineate chapters. Different from other resources, this new Springer product includes not only taxonomy, but also prokaryotic biology and technology of taxa in a broad context. Technological aspects highlight the usefulness of prokaryotes in processes and products, including biocontrol agents and as genetics tools. The content of the expanded fourth edition is divided into two parts: Part 1 contains review chapters dealing with the most important general concepts in molecular, applied and general prokaryote biology; Part 2 describes the known properties of specific taxonomic groups. Two completely new sections have been added to Part 1: bacterial communities and human bacteriology. The bacterial communities section reflects the growing realization that studies on pure cultures of bacteria have led to an incomplete picture of the microbial world for two fundamental reasons: the vast majority of bacteria in soil, water and associated with biological tissues are currently not culturable, and that an understanding of microbial ecology requires knowledge on how different bacterial species interact with each other in their natural environment. The new section on human microbiology deals with bacteria associated with healthy humans and bacterial pathogenesis. Each of the major human diseases caused by bacteria is reviewed, from identifying the pathogens by classical clinical and non-culturing techniques to the biochemical mechanisms of the disease process. The 4th edition of The Prokaryotes is the most complete resource on the biology of prokaryotes.

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Table of contents (39 entries)

  2. Section I Alphaproteobacteria

    6. The Family Bradyrhizobiaceae

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      Pages 135-154

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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  • Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  • Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  • Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Stephen Lory

  • Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

  • Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

About the editors

Eugene Rosenberg, Professor of Microbiology at Tel Aviv University, Israel

Edward F. DeLong, Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

Fabiano Thompson, Professor at Center of Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Stephen Lory, Professor at Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Erko Stackebrandt, Director of the German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Prokaryotes

  • Book Subtitle: Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria

  • Editors: Eugene Rosenberg, Edward F. DeLong, Stephen Lory, Erko Stackebrandt, Fabiano Thompson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30197-1

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-30196-4Published: 30 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-30197-1Published: 10 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 4

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 1013

  • Number of Illustrations: 71 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Microbiology

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