Microbial Diversity

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This book offers the first comprehensive, in-depth treatment of microbial diversity for undergraduate and graduate students. Using a global approach, Microbial Diversity illustrates the impact of microorganisms on ecological and Earth system phenomena. * Accompanied by a devoted website with resources for both instructors and students: www.blackwellpublishing.com/ogunseitan * Uses key ecological and global phenomena to show the continuity of microbial contribution. * Illustrates the importance of microbial diversity for the understanding of global physiochemical and biological processes. * Presents analyses of microscopic, culture, molecular, and phylogenetic systematic methods. * Shows the relevance of microbial diversity to global environmental problems, such as climate change and ozone depletion. * Features numerous illustrations, including over 60 4-color photographs of microbes.

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Oladele Ogunseitan

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Biowissenschaften Cell & Molecular Biology Life Sciences Microbiology & Virology Mikrobiologie u. Virologie Zell- u. Molekularbiologie

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"A thorough read of Microbial Diversity will alter our worldview ... The fundamental lesson of this book turns our culturalmyths inside out ... In Ogunseitan's learned tome thecrucial importance of bacterial life to our environment is laidbare at a sobering level of scholarship." From the Foreword by Lynn Margulis, University ofMassachusetts Microbial Diversity is an excellent work, dealing wellwith a paradox that is well known within microbial ecology: we areaware of how much we don't know. The real strength of Ogunseitan'sbook is that it accounts brilliantly for what we do know. The bookreviews diverse fields, from bioinformatics to environmentalengineering, and each is dealt with thoroughly and accurately. Fewbooks are available that highlight the importance of microbes inevery aspect of global processes; this book is definitely one ofthem. The text will be ideally suited to both under- andpost-graduate students studying microbiology. Society for General Microbiology "Microbial Diversity is an excellent introduction to itssubject, heralding a revolution now begun in microbiology andecology." Edward O. Wilson, University Professor Emeritus, HarvardUniversity "Microbial Diversity is a text that has been neededfor years. The scholarly approach to this exciting and currenttopic by Oladele Ogunseitan fills a real void in themicrobiological literature and will be appreciated by students andprofessional scientists, both in academia and industry. Get readyfor an exciting ride into what most people consider themicrobiological unknown." Arnold Demain, MIT Rise Fellow, DrewUniversity "Dramatic advances in molecular biology, bioinformatics,ecology and environmental engineering have left an indelible markon today's microbiology. This book utilizes the influx ofthese fields to guide readers through the most relevant topics ofmodern microbiology, providing the solid background informationneeded to appreciate microbial diversity." Christoph Tebbe, Federal Agricultural Research Centre andUniversity of Braunschweig "...a good read, and a thorough itnroduction to a complextopic." Bioscience, December 2005 Ogunseitan aptly conveys the study of microbial diversity as anexciting intersection of molecular biology, biochemistry, ecology,and environmental science. In particular, he highlights theconnections between microbial diversity and global environmentalprocesses ... The text provides ample inspiration forprofessors to develop specific topics more thoroughly in theclassroom." The Quarterly Review of Biology
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