Microbiology (non-medical)

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"e;Alginates: Biology and Applications"e; provides an overview of the state of art of alginate material properties, genetics and the molecular mechanisms underlying alginate biosynthesis as well as applications of tailor-made alginates in medicine, food and biotechnology.

Among the goals of environmentally sound waste treatment is the recycling of organic wastes.

Since the discovery of circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria in the late 1980s, the field has exploded with new information.

Viruses are the last frontier of undiscovered life on our planet.

The earliest observation of cytomegalovirus (CMV) interactions with the host cell was owl eye cytopathology in various tissues.

"e;Hydrogenosomes and Mitosomes: Mitochondria of Anaerobic Eukaryotes"e; provides a summary of the current knowledge of these organelles, which occur in unicellular, often parasitic organisms, including human pathogens.

The evolution of viruses has been a topic of intense investigation and theoretical development over the past several decades.

Studies of biotic interactions of algae that involve chemical defenses or signals are currently vibrant, active components of both marine ecological and phycological research.

The importance of specific antibodies for the clearance of and long-term resistance to many infectious pathogens has long been appreciated.

In the well-watered groves of academe, most of us are content to gather worshipful students and technicians in a shady nook to contemplate the eternal verities and to plan extravagant feasts to celebrate our contributions to "e;knowledge"e; and to the gradual improvement of the human condition.

Measles virus, one of the most contagious of all human viruses, has been largely contained by the development and use of a vaccine that was introduced 50 years ago.

All forms of life depend on a variety of heavy metal ions.

This book details the widely accepted hypothesis that the majority of bacteria in virtually all ecosystems grow in matrix-enclosed biofilms.

Several large dsDNA-containing viruses such as poxviruses (smallpox) and herpes viruses are well known among the scientific community, as well as the general populace, because they cause human diseases.

Plant roots may not only be colonized by mycorrhizal fungi, but also by a myriad of bacterial and fungal root endophytes that are usually not considered by the investigators of classic symbioses.

Despite rapid increases in knowledge, malaria continues to kill more than a million people each year and causes symptomatic disease in a further 300 million individuals.

Biotechnology offers one of the most economical and environmentally benign methods of air pollution control for industrial and municipal airstreams.

Part A and Part B of the fifth of twelve volumes of The Mycota deal with the mechanisms of interactions between fungi and plants and consider pathogenic as well as mutualistic associations.

The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes.

In der heutigen Zeit nimmt die Brisanz von Viruserkrankungen in der Human- und Veterinärmedizin immer mehr zu.

This volume includes treatments of systematics and related topics for both fungi and fungus-like organisms in four eukaryotic supergroups, as well as specialized chapters on nomenclature, techniques and evolution.

Over the past 4 billion years, microorganisms have contributed to shaping the earth and making it more habitable for higher forms of life.

In this volume, the authors provide an excellent overview of how far the plant viral vector field has come.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the most notorious pathogens on earth, causing the death of approximately 1.

Although respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been a high priority for vaccine development for over 50 years now, still no vaccine is available and none has yet demonstrated sufficient promise to move to licensure.

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Due to various special physiological features and a genome that greatly differs in structure, gene content and organization from other yeasts, Y.

Commercially, D-xylitol is produced by chemical reactions that are tailored to the requirements of various sectors.

Bioremediation is a rapidly advancing field and the technology has been applied successfully to remediate many contaminated sites.

Megaplasmids are extrachromosomal genetic elements in the size range of 100 kb and larger.

Nanotechnology is a collective term describing a broad range of relatively novel topics.

To start with, we feel that we should explain why the book has been entitled Cholera Toxins.

In 1898, an Austrian microbiologist Heinrich Winterberg made a curious observation: the number of microbial cells in his samples did not match the number of colonies formed on nutrient media (Winterberg 1898).

Most of the Earth's biosphere is characterized by low temperatures.

Endophytic prokaryotes can invade the tissue of the host plant without triggering defense reactions or disease symptoms.

Molecular Mechanisms of Plant and Microbe Coexistence presents studies on the complex and manifold interactions of plants and microbes at the population, genomics and proteomics level.

The group B coxsackieviruses have a long and colorful history, dating to the early days of virology as we now know it.

Secondary Metabolites in Soil Ecology focuses on the role of bacterial, fungal and plant secondary metabolites in soil ecosystems.

"e;Editing a book on editing"e; has a certain "e;tongue in cheek"e; connotation to it, and I must admit that I was not aware what the job truly entailed when the project started.

Achievements and progress in genome mapping and the genomics of microbes supersede by far those for higher plants and animals, in part due to their enormous economic implication but also smaller genome size.

Linear plasmids of microbes represent a heterogenous group of extrachromosomal genetic elements initially assumed to be rare and peculiar.

Although the utility of human antibodies as medical therapeutics for cancer and immune diseases has been well-established, it is only beginning to be realized for the treatment of viral infectious diseases.

In recent years, plants have been increasingly explored for production of biomedicines and vaccine components.

Over the last half of century interferon (IFN), originally discovered as an antiviral protein, has developed from an inhibitor of viral replication to a major force in the antiviral response.