This book serves as a tool to expand the knowledge of researchers in the discipline of microbiology and biochemistry encompassing the fields of mol...

Since the appearance of Darwin's book, "The Origin of Species," adaptation is one of the processes that explains the diversity of species in ecosys...

Molecular Biology Of Bacteria

Molecular Biology has proved to be one of the more fruitful technological approaches to science, being both very powerful and able to generate valu...

This new book presents leading-edge international research in the field of food microbiology. Included in the scope are physiology, genetics, bioch...

Over fifty years of scientific and industrial developments focused on the amino acid producer bacterium Corynebacterium glutamicum has successfully...

Marine and freshwater biotoxins are a well-known problem in food safety, mainly for filter-feeding molluscs and for freshwater aquaculture. This is...

Bivalve molluscs are scientifically and economically important invertebrates. Among them, oysters and clams dominate other species with respect to ...

Most insect parasitoids are related to two insect orders, Diptera and Hymenoptera, some having a specific host while others have a vast host range....

Photosynthesis is a metabolic pathway that converts light energy into chemical energy. Its initial substrates are carbon dioxide and water; the ene...

Plant growth promoting microorganisms (PGPM) have gained acceptance and importance due to their dual benefits of promoting plant growth in addition...

This book presents new and important research on environmental microbiology which is area of interaction that studies the interaction of microorgan...

Proteobacteria are a major group (phylum) of bacteria. They include a wide variety of pathogens, such as Escherichia, Salmonella, Vibrio, Helicobac...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is characterized by its metabolic versatility and found ubiquitously in soil and aquatic habitats and persists survival on v...

Microbiology as a science has expanded by leaps and bounds in the past few decades due to advancements in sophisticated instrumentation and recombi...

Micro-organisms are highly ubiquitous in nature and manifold in their activity. Interest in microbiology increased quite significantly due to wide ...

Enterobacter is a relatively lesser known member of family Enterobacteriaceae with at least fifteen species more or less involved in different huma...

The ability of various microorganisms to attach to surfaces and create biofilms on them is rather a cause of concern for many industries, including...

The bacterium Salmonella enterica is a serious bacterial pathogen and causative agent of salmonellosis infections on a worldwide scale. Many clinic...

The book covers updated topics on the genus Staphylococcus, including the latest discoveries. In each chapter, the author discusses the results obt...

As one of the biological factors that most powerfully impacted history, infectious diseases continue to be a leading cause of global morbidity and ...

Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) are a heterologous group of microorganisms that have been isolated from numerous ecological niches, including fermented ...

The photosynthetic microbes including microalgae and cyanobacteria are the most widespread photosynthetic organisms on Earth. These organisms thriv...

Common to many bacteria is the ability to establish a symbiotic relationship or to evade innate immune responses of an animal, plant, fish or insec...