Desk encyclopedia of microbiology

ADHESION, MICROBIAL L Cegelski, C L Smith and S J Hultgren 20 AGROBACTERIUM AND PLANT CELL TRANSFORMATION P J Christie 29 AMINO ACID PRODUCTION L Eggeling and H Sahm 44 ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE B Pe´ richon and P Courvalin 53 ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS A Espinel-Ingroff 65 ANTIVIRAL AGENTS E Paintsil and Yung-Chi Cheng 83 ARCHAEA (OVERVIEW) S DasSarma, J A Coker and P DasSarma 118 AUTOTROPHIC CO2 METABOLISM B E Alber 140 BACILLUS SUBTILIS P J Piggot 154 BACTERIOPHAGE (OVERVIEW) P Hyman and S T Abedon 166 BIOFILMS, MICROBIAL J W Costerton 183 BIOLOGICAL WARFARE J A Poupard and L A Miller 189 BIOLUMINESCENCE, MICROBIAL P V Dunlap 202 BIOREACTORS L E Erickson 219 CAULOBACTER J S Poindexter 225 CELL CYCLES AND DIVISION, BACTERIAL N Nanninga 242 CELL MEMBRANE, PROKARYOTIC M H Saier Jr. 251 CELL STRUCTURE, ORGANIZATION, BACTERIA AND ARCHAEA N Nanninga 266 CHROMOSOME, BACTERIAL K Drlica and A J Bendich 284 CONJUGATION, BACTERIAL L S Frost 294 CONTINUOUS CULTURES (CHEMOSTATS) J G Kuenen and O J Johnson 309 CYANOBACTERIA F Garcia-Pichel 327 DEEP-SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENTS A Teske 346 DNA RESTRICTION AND MODIFICATION G W Blakely and N E Murray 357 DNA SEQUENCING AND GENOMICS J H Leamon and J M Rothberg 369 EMERGING INFECTIONS D L Heymann 383 ENDOSYMBIONTS AND INTRACELLULAR PARASITES A E Douglas 391 ENTEROPATHOGENIC INFECTIONS F K Bahrani-Mougeot, M W Scobey and P J Sansonetti 405 ESCHERICHIA COLI M Schaechter 420 ETHANOL L R Jarboe, K T Shanmugam and L O Ingram 428 EVOLUTION, THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS WITH MICROORGANISMS R E Lenski and M J Wiser 438 EXOTOXINS J T Barbieri 453 EXTREMOPHILES: ACIDIC ENVIRONMENTS D B Johnson 463 EXTREMOPHILES: COLD ENVIRONMENTS J W Deming 483 EXTREMOPHILES: HOT ENVIRONMENTS J F Holden 495 FERMENTATION A Bo¨ ck 515 FLAGELLA, PROKARYOTIC S-I Aizawa 528 FORENSIC MICROBIOLOGY S Y Hunt, N G Barnaby, B Budowle and S Morse 539 GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOLOGY IN THE NORMAL HOST S M Finegold 552 GENOME SEQUENCE DATABASES: GENOMIC, CONSTRUCTION OF LIBRARIES J M Struble, P Handke and R T Gill 574 GRAM-NEGATIVE COCCI, PATHOGENIC E C Gotschlich 585 HELICOBACTER PYLORI S Suerbaum and M J Blaser 597 HEPATITIS VIRUSES A J Uriel and P Martin 603 HERPESVIRUSES A L van Lint and D M Knipe 625 HIV/AIDS S Kaushik and J A Levy 640 HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER: UPTAKE OF EXTRACELLULAR DNA BY BACTERIA K M Nielsen, J L Ray and P J Johnsen 663 INFLUENZA A Garcı´a-Sastre 673 LEGIONELLA, BARTONELLA, HAEMOPHILUS N C Engleberg 680 LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES (ENDOTOXINS) A X Tran and C Whitfield 692 MARINE HABITATS D M Karl and R Letelier 708 METABOLISM, CENTRAL (INTERMEDIARY) M P Spector 728 METAGENOMICS Z L Sabree, M R Rondon and J Handelsman 751 METAL EXTRACTION AND BIOMINING C A Jerez 762 MYCOPLASMA AND SPIROPLASMA J Stu¨ lke, H Eilers and S R Schmidl 776 NUTRITION, MICROBIAL T Egli 788 GRAM-NEGATIVE OPPORTUNISTIC ANAEROBES: FRIENDS AND FOES A A Salyers and N B Shoemaker 805 OUTER MEMBRANE, GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA H Nikaido 813 PEPTIDOGLYCAN (MUREIN) M A de Pedro 827 PHOTOSYNTHESIS: MICROBIAL B Jagannathan and J H Golbeck 844 PILI, FIMBRIAE B K Dhakal, J M Bower and M A Mulvey 861 PLANT PATHOGENS AND DISEASE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION G N Agrios 881 PLASMIDS, BACTERIAL M Filutowicz 915 POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION T M Henkin 937 PRIONS W Bodemer 952 PSEUDOMONAS A Zago and S Chugani 971 QUORUM-SENSING IN BACTERIA M M Ramsey, A K Korgaonkar and M Whiteley 987 SENSORY TRANSDUCTION IN BACTERIA M Y Galperin 1005 SPIROCHETES D A Haake 1022 STAPHYLOCOCCUS A F Gillaspy and J J Iandolo 1037 STRAIN IMPROVEMENT S Parekh 1048 STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE R Sa´ -Lea˜ o and A Tomasz 1061 STRESS, BACTERIAL: GENERAL AND SPECIFIC A Matin 1075 TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION O Amster-Choder 1091 TRANSDUCTION: HOST DNA TRANSFER BY BACTERIOPHAGES P C Fineran, N K Petty and G P C Salmond 1107 TRANSPORT, SOLUTE Q Ren and I T Paulsen 1121 TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS W S Reznikoff 1137 TUBERCULOSIS: MOLECULAR BASIS OF PATHOGENESIS P J Brennan 1147 VACCINES, VIRAL A M Arvin and S F Chen 1154 VIROIDS/VIRUSOIDS B Ding and X Zhong 1163 YEASTS G M Walker 1174 INDEX 1189