13 Books found
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Biology and Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs
The four living species of horseshoe crabs face a set of growing threats to their survival, including the erosion and/or man-made alteration of essential spawning habitat, coastal pollution, and overfishing. Horseshoe crabs are “living fossils”, with a more than 200 million year evolutionary history. Their blood provides a reagent, known as Limulus amebocyte lysate or LAL, that clots in the presence of minute quantities of bacterial endotoxin; ...
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Halophilic Microorganisms
Various groups of microorganisms - bacteria, archaea, algae and even fungi - have adapted to a life in a hypersaline environment. Halophilic Microorganisms explores the many-fold aspects of life under these extreme conditions. Several contributions analyze the microbial communities in different hypersaline environments such as salterns, soda lakes, and the Dead Sea or salt sediments. Reviews of their biodiversity, phylogeny, and genetics are ...
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Pseudomonas
The first four volumes of Pseudomonas series covered the biology of pseudomonads in a wide context, including the niches they inhabit, the taxonomic relations among members of this group, the molecular biology of gene expression in different niches and under different environmental conditions, the analysis of virulence traits in plants, animals and human pathogens as well as the determinants that make some strains useful for biotechnological ...
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Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Handbook
This book is a comprehensive source for technical information regarding ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) and its application to air and surface disinfection for the control of pathogens and allergens. The primary focus is on airborne microbes and surface contamination applications for hospitals, commercial facilities, and residential homes. All aspects of UVGI systems, including design methods, sizing methods, modeling, safety, ...
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Applied Microbial Systematics
Modern approaches to microbial classification and identification, particularly those based on nucleic acid analysis, have raised the awareness and interest of microbiologists in systematics during the past decade. The extended scope of the subject has revolutionized microbial ecology with the demonstration of uncultivable microorganisms as a major component of the biosphere and evolution, with the ribosomal RNA phylogenetic tree as the ...
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Applied Microbial Systematics
Modern approaches to microbial classification and identification, particularly those based on nucleic acid analysis, have raised the awareness and interest of microbiologists in systematics during the past decade. The extended scope of the subject has revolutionized microbial ecology with the demonstration of uncultivable microorganisms as a major component of the biosphere and evolution, with the ribosomal RNA phylogenetic tree as the ...
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Drinking Water Microbiology
This comprehensive volume provides a state-of-the-art review of the analysis and treatment of drinking water for microbial contamination, the direct cause of diseases and infant mortality primarily in the third world, but affecting industrialized countries as well. As a result of growing concern over waterborne epidemics, the 1980s were dedicated as the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade by the United Nations. This book ...
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Environmental Monitoring of Bacteria
Clive Edwards and his distinguished panel of researchers bring together a collection of detailed molecular methods for the environmental monitoring of bacterial populations. These state-of-the-art methods include techniques for the recovery of cells, for the analysis of whole cells, and for the molecular study of target species and heterogeneous populations. Many of the methods enable bacteria to be monitored in their natural environments ...
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Microbial Diversity in Time and Space
Introduction (R.R. Colwell). Scope of Microbial Diversity: Importance of the Diversity of Community Relations (H. Kawanabe). Evolution of Microbial Diversity: From Strains to Domains: Measuring the Degree of Phylogenetic Diversity among Prokaryotic Species and as yet Uncultured Strains (E. Stackebrandt). Diversity of Viruses (M. Hatanaka). The Evolution of Fungal Diversity: Past, Present, and Future (A.Y. Rossman). Mutual Interaction ...
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Microbial Growth Kinetics
Microbial Growth Kinetics opens with a critical review of the history of microbial kinetics from the 19th century to the present day. The results of original investigations into the growth of soil microbes in both laboratory and natural environments are summarised. The book emphasises the analysis of complex dynamic behaviour of microorganism populations. Non-steady states and unbalanced growth, multiple limitation, survival under ...
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Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars and Related Pathogens
During the last decade, research on Pseudomonas syringae pathovars and related pathogens has progressed rapidly, opening up many new avenues. The application of molecular genetics has provided new insights into determinants of pathogenicity and virulence. Progress has also been made in elucidating the chemical structures and modes of action of phytotoxins from Pseudomonas syringae; by establishing novel strategies for disease control; in ...
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The Microbiology of Activated Sludge
Waste water treatment is the largest biotechnology industry in the world, handling and disposing of domestic and industrial wastes so they present no threat to the general populace or the environment at large. The activated sludge process is the cornerstone of sewage treatment systems. Although it is a biological process and has been in use for more than 80 years, we still lack detailed understanding of how it works and how its performance ...
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The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center II
Symmetrical InterSubunit Suppressors of the Bacterial Reaction Center cdhelix Exchange Mutants; S.J. Robles, et al. Suggestions for Directed Engineering of Reaction Centers; J. Fajer, et al. Potential Energy Function for Photosynthetic Reaction Center Chromophores; N. Foloppe, et al. Bacterial Reaction Centers with Planttype Pheophytins; H. Scheer, et al. EPR and ENDOR Studies of the Primary Donor Cation Radical in Native and Genetically ...