Brock Biology of Microorganisms + Student Access Kit
International Edition
Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko
Résumé
The front cover and the inset on the right show a confo-cal laser scanning micrograph of cells of cyanobacteria (yellow) that developed in a calcium carbonate biofilm (green) in a western Australian soda lake. Cyanobacteria are phototrophic prokaryotes, many of which thrive in the highly alkaline and saline waters of soda lakes. They are also oxygenic phototrophs and their photosynthetic process is coupled to oxygen production, as in green plants. Cyanobacteria, however, inhabited Earth billions of years before green plants, and the photosynthetic activities of these microscopic organisms produced the oxygen needed for the evolution of higher life forms. From a more personal point of view, had cyanobacteria never appeared, you would not be reading these words-Earth's biology would never have made it past the bacterial stage!
Cyanobacteria are only one of the many groups of microorganisms the reader will come to know in the eleventh edition of Brock Biology of Microorganisms. As always, the book is anchored in the principles of evolution and diversity. From these foundations, and with up-to-the-minute coverage, Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 11/e explores the many facets of microbiology today, including general microbiology and cell biology, molecular biology and genetics, microbial diversity and genomics, metabolic diversity and microbial ecology, immunology and host responses, microbial diseases, and bio technology/industrial microbiology. Moreover, the reader will find the learning resources in Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 11/e to be superbly organized, tightly linked, and pedagogically robust. Thus, both students and instructors alike will benefit from this exciting learning tool. Welcome to the field of microbiology in the twenty-first century-you're going to like what you see!
L'auteur - Michael T. Madigan
Michael T. Madigan received a bachelor's degree in biology and education from Wisconsin State University at Stevens Point in 1971 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1974 and 1976, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Bacteriology. His graduate work involved study of the biology of hot, spring photosynthetic bacteria under the direction of Thomas D. Brock. Following three years of postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology, Indiana University, where he worked on photosynthetic bacteria with Howard Gest, he moved to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he is now Professor of Microbiology. He has beer a coauthor of Biology of Microorganisms since the fourth edition (1984) and teaches courses in introductory microbiology and bacterial diversity. In 1988 he was selected as the outstanding teacher in the College of Science, and in 1993 its outstanding researcher. His research has dealt almost exclusively with anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, especially those species that inhabit extreme environments. He has published nearly 85 research papers, has coedited a major treatise on photosynthetic bacteria, and is Chief Editor for North America of the journal Archives of Microbiology. His nonscientific interests include reading, hiking, tree planting, and caring for his dogs, and horses. He lives aside a quiet lake about five miles from the SIU campus with his wife, Nancy, two dogs, Willie and Plum, and King and Feenkönig (horses).
L'auteur - John M. Martinko
John M. Martinko attended The Cleveland State University
and majored in biology with a chemistry minor. As an
undergraduate student he participated in a cooperative
education program, gaining research experience in several
microbiology and immunology laboratories. He then worked
for two years at Case Western Reserve University as a
laboratory manager, continuing his cooperative education
research on the structure, serology, and epidemiology of
Streptococcus pyogenes. He next went to the State
University of New York at Buffalo where he did research on
antibody specificity and idiotypes for his M.A. and Ph.D.
(1978) in Microbiology. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked
at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York on the
structure of major his to compatibility complex proteins.
Since 1981, he has been in the Department of Microbiology
at Southem Illinois University at Carbondale where he is
currently the Chair and Associate Professor. His research
interests include the effects of growth hormone on the
immune response and the immunological identification of
soybean brown stem rot disease. His teaching interests in
include undergraduate and graduate courses in imintmology
and a team-taught general microbiology course, where he is
responsible for immunology, host defense, and infectious
diseases. He lives with his wife Judy, a junior high school
science teacher, and their daughters, Martha and Helen, in
Carbondale where he has been active in coaching his
daughters' soccer and softball teams. He tries to find time
to play soccer and golf.
Sommaire
- Principles of Microbiology
- Evolutionary Microbiology and Microbial Diversity
- Metabolic Diversity and Microbial Ecology
- Immunology, Pathogenicity, and Host Responses
- Microbial Diseases
- Microorganisms as Tools for Industry and Research
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Prentice Hall |
| Auteur(s) | Michael T. Madigan, John M. Martinko |
| Parution | 30/04/2005 |
| Édition | 11eme édition |
| Nb. de pages | 1088 |
| Format | 21,5 x 27,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 2300g |
| Intérieur | Quadri |
| EAN13 | 9780132017848 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-13-201784-8 |
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