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Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur
| Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur |
| Autore | McArthur J. Vaun |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
| Disciplina | 579/.17 |
| Soggetto topico |
Microbial ecology
Surface chemistry |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-55248-1
9786612552489 0-08-051154-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Section I: Ecology and Evolution; 1: Core Concepts in Studying Ecology and Evolution; The Beginnings of Microbiology; Viruses; Bacteria; Photosynthetic Bacteria; Gliding Bacteria; Sheathed Bacteria; Budding and Prosthecate Bacteria; Spirochetes; Spiral and Curved Bacteria; Strictly Aerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Facultative Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Strictly Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Nonphotosynthetic Autotrophic Bacteria; Gram-Negative Cocci; Gram-Positive Cocci; Endospore-Forming Bacteria
Non-Spore-Forming, Gram-Positive RodsBranching Bacteria; Obligate Intracellular Bacteria; Ecology Becomes a Science; Evolution; Natural Selection; Patterns of Selection; Evolutionary Ecology; 2: Molecules and Origins of Life; Chemistry of Life; Water; Biological Elements; Early Atmosphere and the Beginnings of Life; Miller Flask Experiment; Which Molecule Came First?; Genes-First Models; Proteins-First Models; Dual-Origin Models; 3: Species Concepts and Speciation; Universal Species Concept; Biological Species Concept; Phenetic and Related Species Concepts; Evolutionary Species Concept Phylogenetic Species ConceptBacterial Taxonomy; Bacterial Species Concepts; Application of the Phenetic Species Concept to Bacteria; Application of the Phylogenetic Species Concept; Speciation; Bacterial Speciation; Mismatch Repair as a Speciation Mechanism; Rapid Speciation?; Operons; Genome Economization and Speciation; Hypermutation; Genome Reduction; Section II: Ecology of Individuals; 4: The Individual; What Is an Individual?; Study of Individuals; Study of Individual Microorganisms; Genetic Individuals; Ramets; Ecological Individual; Niche; Abiotic Constraints; 5: Growth and Feeding Growth and Surface-to-Volume RatiosEcology of Feeding; Metabolic Energy; Role of Carbon; Microbial Feeding Strategies; Costs of Feeding; Generalists and Specialists; Optimal Foraging and Microbes; Cheating; Free-Living Microorganisms; Food Chains and Webs; Fermentations; 6: Ecology of Sex; Reproductive Ecology; Microbial Reproduction; Conjugation; Transposons; Transformation; Transduction; Advantages and Disadvantages of Sex; Rate of Reproduction; Plasmids and Extrachromosomal DNA; When Would Plasmids Be Favorable?; Genes on Plasmids; Plasmids in Streams; Plasmids in Lakes Hot Spots for Plasmid TransferTransformation in Nature; Section III: Living Together in Populations; 7: Fundamentals of Microbial Population Ecology; Populations in Ecology; Properties of Populations; Density; Natality and Fecundity; Mortality, Longevity, and Senescence; Immigration and Emigration; Microbial Population Ecology; Population Growth; Density Dependence and Independence; r and K Selection; 8: Metapopulations, Multicellularity, and Modular Growth; Metapopulations; Dispersal; Modularity; Source and Sinks; Population Ecology of Genes; Sources of Phenotypic and Genotypic Variation Sources of Genic and Chromosomal Genetic Variation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453875303321 |
McArthur J. Vaun
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur
| Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur |
| Autore | McArthur J. Vaun |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
| Disciplina | 579/.17 |
| Soggetto topico |
Microbial ecology
Surface chemistry |
| ISBN |
1-282-55248-1
9786612552489 0-08-051154-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Section I: Ecology and Evolution; 1: Core Concepts in Studying Ecology and Evolution; The Beginnings of Microbiology; Viruses; Bacteria; Photosynthetic Bacteria; Gliding Bacteria; Sheathed Bacteria; Budding and Prosthecate Bacteria; Spirochetes; Spiral and Curved Bacteria; Strictly Aerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Facultative Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Strictly Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Nonphotosynthetic Autotrophic Bacteria; Gram-Negative Cocci; Gram-Positive Cocci; Endospore-Forming Bacteria
Non-Spore-Forming, Gram-Positive RodsBranching Bacteria; Obligate Intracellular Bacteria; Ecology Becomes a Science; Evolution; Natural Selection; Patterns of Selection; Evolutionary Ecology; 2: Molecules and Origins of Life; Chemistry of Life; Water; Biological Elements; Early Atmosphere and the Beginnings of Life; Miller Flask Experiment; Which Molecule Came First?; Genes-First Models; Proteins-First Models; Dual-Origin Models; 3: Species Concepts and Speciation; Universal Species Concept; Biological Species Concept; Phenetic and Related Species Concepts; Evolutionary Species Concept Phylogenetic Species ConceptBacterial Taxonomy; Bacterial Species Concepts; Application of the Phenetic Species Concept to Bacteria; Application of the Phylogenetic Species Concept; Speciation; Bacterial Speciation; Mismatch Repair as a Speciation Mechanism; Rapid Speciation?; Operons; Genome Economization and Speciation; Hypermutation; Genome Reduction; Section II: Ecology of Individuals; 4: The Individual; What Is an Individual?; Study of Individuals; Study of Individual Microorganisms; Genetic Individuals; Ramets; Ecological Individual; Niche; Abiotic Constraints; 5: Growth and Feeding Growth and Surface-to-Volume RatiosEcology of Feeding; Metabolic Energy; Role of Carbon; Microbial Feeding Strategies; Costs of Feeding; Generalists and Specialists; Optimal Foraging and Microbes; Cheating; Free-Living Microorganisms; Food Chains and Webs; Fermentations; 6: Ecology of Sex; Reproductive Ecology; Microbial Reproduction; Conjugation; Transposons; Transformation; Transduction; Advantages and Disadvantages of Sex; Rate of Reproduction; Plasmids and Extrachromosomal DNA; When Would Plasmids Be Favorable?; Genes on Plasmids; Plasmids in Streams; Plasmids in Lakes Hot Spots for Plasmid TransferTransformation in Nature; Section III: Living Together in Populations; 7: Fundamentals of Microbial Population Ecology; Populations in Ecology; Properties of Populations; Density; Natality and Fecundity; Mortality, Longevity, and Senescence; Immigration and Emigration; Microbial Population Ecology; Population Growth; Density Dependence and Independence; r and K Selection; 8: Metapopulations, Multicellularity, and Modular Growth; Metapopulations; Dispersal; Modularity; Source and Sinks; Population Ecology of Genes; Sources of Phenotypic and Genotypic Variation Sources of Genic and Chromosomal Genetic Variation |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782658703321 |
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McArthur J. Vaun
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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