Microbe (Hardcover, 2)

Preface ix

PART I Fundamenta ls of Microbial Life?1

1 A Microbial Planet 2

2 Prokaryotic Cell Exterior: Envelopes and Appendages 24

3 Prokaryotic Cell Interior 58

4 Microbial Cell Growth and Division 82

5 Microbial Metabolism 114

6 Bioenergetics of Fueling 132

7 Synthesis of Building Blocks 164

8 Building Macromolecules 206

9 Building the Cell Envelope 242

10 Inheritance and Information Flow 268

11 Coordination of Cell Processes 304

12 Succeeding in the Environment 332

13 Differentiation and Development 364

Part II Microbial Diversity 389

14 Bacteria and Archaea 390

15 The Fungi 420

16 Protists 436

17 The Viruses 460

18 Viral Latency 490

Part III Microbial Ecology 515

19 Microbial Communities 516

20 Cycles of Elements 556

21 Microbial Interactions 584

Part IV Microbial Pat hogenesis?621

22 Infection: The Vertebrate Host 622

23 Opportunistic Infections by Microbiota: MRSA 652

24 Intracellular Pathogens: Listeria and Mycobacterium 672

25 Herpes: An Ancient Human Virus Prevails 696

26 Toxins and Epidemic Cholera: Phage Giveth, and Phage Taketh Away 712

27 Zoonoses: How Plague Emerged from a Foodborne Illness 730

Part V Putting Microbes to Work 747

28 A Past, a Present, and a Future with Microbes 748