Unseen diversity : the world of bacteria
Summary: Wheaton College biology professor Betsey Dexter Dyer examines the role of bacteria as major players in Earth's biodiversity.
Contents:
- Introduction to the bacerial world
- Hidden in plain sight
- Seventeenth-century microscopy and the discovery of bacteria
- A brief history of bacteriology
- The family tree of bacteria
- The extremophiles
- An enormous and diverse group: The proteobacteria
- An enormous and diverse group: The gram positives
- Gram positives in the soil community
- Bacteria as pathogens
- What about the viruses?
- Cyanobacteria: The original phorosynthesizers
- Diverse metabolisms
- Future directions.
Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD
, [Prince Frederick, Md.]
, Recorded Books
, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
Language(s): English
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Wheaton College biology professor Betsey Dexter Dyer examines the role of bacteria as major players in Earth's biodiversity.
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[Distributed by] OneClick Digital
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