March of the Microbes : : Sighting the Unseen /

March of the Microbes : : Sighting the Unseen / / John L. Ingraham.

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Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the workings of snowmaking machines, Botox,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
VerfasserIn:
Ingraham, John L.,
MitwirkendeR:
Kolter, Roberto,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]
©2012
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • 1 The Microbial Landscape
  • 2 Acquiring Metabolic Energy
  • 3 Food and Drink
  • 4 Living Together
  • 5 Cycling Nitrogen
  • 6 Cycling Sulfur
  • 7 Cycling Carbon
  • 8 Hostile Environments
  • 9 Fungi, Hostile and Benign
  • 10 Viruses
  • 11 Felonious Bacteria
  • 12 Shapers of the Planet
  • 13 Closer to Us
  • 14 Survivors
  • Glossary
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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