Bacteria : in biology biotechnology and medicine / Paul Singleton
Imprint
Chichester ; New York : John Wiley & Sons, 2004
Edition
6th ed
Descript
viii, 559 p. : ill. ; 26 cm
CONTENT
1. The bacteria : an introduction -- 2. The bacterial cell -- 3. Growth and reproduction -- 4. Differentiation -- 5. Metabolism I : energy -- 6. Metabolism II : carbon -- 7. Molecular biology I : genes and gene expression -- 8. Molecular biology II : changing the message -- 9. Bacteriophages -- 10. Bacteria in the living world -- 11. Bacteria in medicine -- 12. Applied bacteriology I : food -- 13. Applied bacteriology II : miscellaneous aspects -- 14. Some practical bacteriology -- 15. Man against bacteria -- 16. The identification and classification of bacteria -- App. Minidescriptions of some genera, families, orders and other categories of bacteria