from the environment to organisms and genomes and back /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Karsten Zengler
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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Washington, D.C. :
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ASM Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2008
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 308 p. :
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ill. (some col.) ;
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cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Does cultivation still matter? / Karsten Zengler -- The human intestinal microbiota and its impact on human health / Mirjana Rajili-Stojanovi, Willem M. de Vos, and Erwin G. Zoetendal -- The uncountables / William T. Sloan, Christopher Quince, and Thomas P. Curtis -- The missing fungi : new insights from culture-independent molecular studies of soil / S.K. Schmidt ... [et al.] -- The diversity of free-living protists seen and unseen, cultured and uncultured / David A. Caron and Rebecca J. Gast -- Microbial biogeography : patterns in microbial diversity across space and time / Noah Fierer -- The least common denominator : species or operational taxonomic units? / Ramon Rosselló-Mora and Arantxa López-López --
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Measuring diversity / Jed A. Fuhrman -- Metagenomics as a tool to study biodiversity / Karen E. Nelson -- New cultivation strategies for terrestrial microorganisms / Peter H. Janssen -- Cultivation of marine symbiotic microorganisms / Todd A. Ciche -- Methods to study consortia and mixed cultures / Boran Kartal and Marc Strous -- Microbial cell individuality / Simon V. Avery -- Nanomechanical methods to study single cells / Ramya Desikan ... [et al.] -- Single cell genomics / Martin Keller, Christopher W. Schadt, and Anthony V. Palumbo -- How many genes does a cell need? / Hamilton O. Smith ... [et al.]