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The Prokaryotes

A Handbook on Habitats, Isolation and Identification of Bacteria

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  • © 1981

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Editors:
  1. Mortimer P. Starr

    1. Department of Bacteriology, University of California, Davis, USA

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  2. Heinz Stolp

    1. Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

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  3. Hans G. Trüper

    1. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany

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  4. Albert Balows

    1. Bacteriology Division, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA

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  5. Hans G. Schlegel

    1. Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany

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Table of contents (87 chapters)

  1. The Phototrophic Prokaryotes

    1. Characterization and Identification of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria

      • Hans G. Trüper, Norbert Pfennig
      Pages 299-312

  2. The Gliding Bacteria

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313
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    2. Introduction to the Gliding Bacteria

      • Hans Reichenbach, Martin Dworkin
      Pages 315-327

    3. The Order Myxobacterales

      • Hans Reichenbach, Martin Dworkin
      Pages 328-355

    4. The Order Cytophagales (with Addenda on the Genera Herpetosiphon, Saprospira, and Flexithrix)

      • Hans Reichenbach, Martin Dworkin
      Pages 356-379

    5. The Family Beggiatoaceae

      • Wolfgang Wiessner
      Pages 380-389

    6. The Genera Simonsiella and Alysiella

      • Daisy A. Kuhn
      Pages 390-399

    7. The Genus Leucothrix

      • Thomas D. Brock
      Pages 400-408

    8. The Genus Toxothrix

      • Peter Hirsch
      Pages 409-411

    9. The Family Pelonemataceae

      • Peter Hirsch
      Pages 412-421

  3. The Sheathed Bacteria Some Gas-Vacuolate Bacteria

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 423-423
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    2. The Sheathed Bacteria

      • Eppe Gerke Mulder, Maria H. Deinema
      Pages 425-440

    3. Gas-Vacuolate Bacteria (Apart from Cyanobacteria)

      • Anthony E. Walsby
      Pages 441-447

  4. The Budding and/or Appendaged Bacteria

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 449-449
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    2. Introduction to the Budding and/or Appendaged Bacteria

      • James T. Staley, Peter Hirsch, Jean M. Schmidt
      Pages 451-455

    3. The Genera Prosthecomicrobium and Ancalomicrobium

      • James T. Staley
      Pages 456-460

    4. The Genus Stella

      • Peter Hirsch, Heinz Schlesner
      Pages 461-465

    5. The Genera Caulobacter and Asticcacaulis

      • Jean M. Schmidt
      Pages 466-476

    6. The Genus Prosthecobacter

      • James T. Staley
      Pages 477-479

    7. The Genera Hyphomicrobium, Pedomicrobium, and Hyphomonas

      • Richard L. Moore
      Pages 480-487
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About this book

The purpose ofthis brief Foreword is to make you, the reader, hungry for the scientific feast that follows. These two volumes on the prokary­ otes offer a truly unique scientific menu-a comprehensive assembly of articles, exhibiting the biochemical depth and remarkable physiological and morphological diversity of prokaryote life. The size of the volumes might initially discourage the unprepared mind from being attracted to the study of prokaryote life, for this landmark assemblage thoroughly documents the wealth of present knowledge. But in confronting the reader with the state of the art, the Handbook also defines where new work needs to be done on well-studied bacteria as well as on unusual or poorly studied organisms. There are basically two ways of doing research with microbes. A classical approach is first to define the phenomenon to be studied and then to select the organism accordingly. Another way is to choose a specific organism and go where it leads. The pursuit of an unusual microbe brings out the latent hunter in all of us. The intellectual chal­ lenges of the chase frequently test our ingenuity to the limit. Sometimes the quarry repeatedly escapes, but the final capture is indeed a wonder­ ful experience. For many of us, these simple rewards are sufficiently gratifying so that we have chosen to spend our scientific lives studying these unusual creatures.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Bacteriology, University of California, Davis, USA

    Mortimer P. Starr

  • Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Federal Republic of Germany

    Heinz Stolp

  • Institut für Mikrobiologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Trüper

  • Bacteriology Division, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA

    Albert Balows

  • Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Hans G. Schlegel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Prokaryotes

  • Book Subtitle: A Handbook on Habitats, Isolation and Identification of Bacteria

  • Editors: Mortimer P. Starr, Heinz Stolp, Hans G. Trüper, Albert Balows, Hans G. Schlegel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-13187-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-13187-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: LXXVIII, 1258

  • Topics: Microbiology

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharma

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