A. L. Koch

Bacterial Growth and Form (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

I assume that you already know a good deal of microbiology. In this book, I frequently use the word "we" by which I mean "you and I". Together we are going to consider bacteriology from a broader perspective and we will think our way through the important biological problems that are frequently just skipped over in every microbiology course. My most important reason for writing this book is to make accessible the relevant thinking from fields of science other than microbiology that are important to microbiology. The book is written for people that have already have a fascination with bacteria, but can see that their background for understanding is far complete. This book consists of topics that are largely omitted from microbiology textbooks and includes some mathematics, physics, chemistry, and evolutionary biology. It contains a good deal of my own work, both experimental and theoretical, together with a lot of speculation. If ten times bigger, it would be a full text book on microbial physiology. A third of the microbial physiology is covered by the recent is no longer treated even in textbook by White (2000). Another third current specialized tests and is greatly underrepresented in text books.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401708272
• Artikelnr.: 44178327

Inhaltsangabe

1. From the First Cell to the Last Universal Ancestor.- 2. The Contrast of the Cellular Abilities of Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes.- 3. Bacterial Growth.- 4. The Synthesis of Functional Bacterial Wall.- 5. Turgor Pressure of Bacterial Cells.- 6. The Surface Stress Theory: Nonvitalism in Action.- 7. The Mechanical Aspects of Cell Division.- 8. The Gram-Positive Coccus: Enterococcus hirae.- 9. Gram-Positive Rod-Shaped Organism: Bacillus subtilis.- 10. The Gram-Negative Rod: Escherichia coli.- 11. Apical Growth of Streptomyces and Fungi.- 12. Twisting and Rotation During the Growth of Gram-Positive Rods.- 13. The Structural and Physiological Roles of the Layers of the Envelope of Gram-Negative Bacteria.- 14. Gliding Motility, Protonmotive Force, and Flagellar Rotation.- 15. Prokaryotic Perspective.

Rezensionen

What the author presents is exactly what we are waiting from a true cellular and molecular biologist: new perspectives and explanation, in a syncretic manner, of fundamental biological Life Science problems, linking structures and chemical and physical phenomena. This book should be bought by all our readers. And they are numerous! - Cellular and Molecular Biology