[eBook Code] Principles of Microbial Diversity (eBook Code, 1st)

Acknowledgments

Preface

About the Author

Section I Introduction to Microbial Diversity

1. What Is Microbial Diversity?

2. Context and Historical Baggage

3. Phylogenetic Information

4. Constructing a Phylogenetic Tree

5. Tree Construction Complexities

6. Alternatives to Small-Subunit rRNA Analysis

7. The Tree of Life

Section II The Microbial Zoo

8. Primitive Thermophilic Bacteria

9. Green Phototrophic Bacteria

10. Proteobacteria

11. Gram-Positive Bacteria

12. Spirochetes and Bacteroids

13. Deinococci, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes

14. Bacterial Phyla with Few or No Cultivated Species

15. Archaea

16. Eukaryotes

17. Viruses and Prions

Section III Microbial Populations

18. Identification of Uncultivated Organisms

19. Sequence-Based Microbial Surveys

20. Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization Surveys

21. Molecular Fingerprinting of Microbial Populations

22. Linking Phenotype and Phylotype

Section IV Conclusion: The Phylogenetic Perspective

23. Genomics, Comparative Genomics, and Metagenomics

24. Origins and Early Evolution

Index