The Prokaryotes: A Handbook On Habitats, Isolation And Identification Of Bacteria. Volumes 1 And 2.

The purpose ofthis brief Foreword is to make you, the reader, hungry for the scientific feast that follows. These two volumes on the prokary­ otes offer a truly unique scientific menu-a comprehensive assembly of articles, exhibiting the biochemical depth and remarkable physiological and morphological diversity of prokaryote life. The size of the volumes might initially discourage the unprepared mind from being attracted to the study of prokaryote life, for this landmark assemblage thoroughly documents the wealth of present knowledge. But in confronting the reader with the state of the art, the Handbook also defines where new work needs to be done on well-studied bacteria as well as on unusual or poorly studied organisms. There are basically two ways of doing research with microbes. A classical approach is first to define the phenomenon to be studied and then to select the organism accordingly. Another way is to choose a specific organism and go where it leads. The pursuit of an unusual microbe brings out the latent hunter in all of us. The intellectual chal­ lenges of the chase frequently test our ingenuity to the limit. Sometimes the quarry repeatedly escapes, but the final capture is indeed a wonder­ ful experience. For many of us, these simple rewards are sufficiently gratifying so that we have chosen to spend our scientific lives studying these unusual creatures. Front Matter....Pages N1-xxxviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Prokaryote Diversity....Pages 3-42 Prokaryotes and their Habitats....Pages 43-82 Bacterial Pathogenicity in Man and Animals....Pages 83-122 Prokaryotes as Plant Pathogens....Pages 123-134 Principles of Isolation, Cultivation, and Conservation of Bacteria....Pages 135-175 Principles of Characterization and Identification of Prokaryotes....Pages 176-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Introduction to the Phototrophic Prokaryotes....Pages 197-211 Isolation and Purification of Cyanobacteria: Some General Principles....Pages 212-220 Isolation and Growth of Cyanobacteria from Marine and Hypersaline Environments....Pages 221-223 Cyanobacteria: Planktonic Gas-Vacuolate Forms....Pages 224-235 Isolation and Cultivation of Thermophilic Cyanobacteria....Pages 236-246 Provisional Generic Assignments for Cyanobacteria in Pure Culture....Pages 247-256 The Prochlorophytes....Pages 257-266 Isolation of Members of the Family Rhodospirillaceae....Pages 267-273 The Genus Ectothiorhodospira ....Pages 274-278 Isolation of Members of the Families Chromatiaceae and Chlorobiaceae....Pages 279-289 Isolation of Members of the Family Chloroflexaceae....Pages 290-298 Characterization and Identification of the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria....Pages 299-312 Front Matter....Pages 313-313 Introduction to the Gliding Bacteria....Pages 315-327 The Order Myxobacterales....Pages 328-355 Front Matter....Pages 313-313 The Order Cytophagales (with Addenda on the Genera Herpetosiphon, Saprospira , and Flexithrix )....Pages 356-379 The Family Beggiatoaceae....Pages 380-389 The Genera Simonsiella and Alysiella ....Pages 390-399 The Genus Leucothrix ....Pages 400-408 The Genus Toxothrix ....Pages 409-411 The Family Pelonemataceae....Pages 412-421 Front Matter....Pages 423-423 The Sheathed Bacteria....Pages 425-440 Gas-Vacuolate Bacteria (Apart from Cyanobacteria)....Pages 441-447 Front Matter....Pages 449-449 Introduction to the Budding and/or Appendaged Bacteria....Pages 451-455 The Genera Prosthecomicrobium and Ancalomicrobium ....Pages 456-460 The Genus Stella ....Pages 461-465 The Genera Caulobacter and Asticcacaulis ....Pages 466-476 The Genus Prosthecobacter ....Pages 477-479 The Genera Hyphomicrobium, Pedomicrobium , and Hyphomonas ....Pages 480-487 The Genus Thiodendron ....Pages 488-489 The Genus Pasteuria ....Pages 490-492 The Genus Blastobacter ....Pages 493-495 The Blastocaulis-Planctomyces Group of Budding and Appendaged Bacteria....Pages 496-504 The Genus Planctomyces ....Pages 505-508 The Genus Gallionella ....Pages 509-515 Front Matter....Pages 449-449 The Genus Seliberia ....Pages 516-519 The Genus Nevskia ....Pages 520-523 The Genus Metallogenium ....Pages 524-528 The Genera Caulococcus and Kusnezovia ....Pages 529-530 Front Matter....Pages 531-531 Introduction to the Spirochetes....Pages 533-537 Free-Living Anaerobic and Facultatively Anaerobic Spirochetes: The Genus Spirochaeta ....Pages 538-547 The Genera Pillotina, Hollandina , and Diplocalyx ....Pages 548-554 The Genus Cristispira ....Pages 555-563 The Genus Treponema ....Pages 564-577 The Genus Borrelia ....Pages 578-581 Aerobic Spirochetes: The Genus Leptospira ....Pages 582-591 Front Matter....Pages 593-593 The Genera Spirillum, Aquaspirillum , and Oceanospirillum ....Pages 595-608 The Genus Campylobacter ....Pages 609-617 The Genus Bdellovibrio ....Pages 618-629 The Genus Microcyclus and Related Bacteria....Pages 630-644 The Genus Pelosigma ....Pages 645-648 The Genus Brachyarcus ....Pages 649-651 Front Matter....Pages 653-653 Introduction to the Family Pseudomonadaceae....Pages 655-665 Human- and Animal-Pathogenic Members of the Genus Pseudomonas ....Pages 666-700 Phytopathogenic Members of the Genus Pseudomonas ....Pages 701-718 Front Matter....Pages 653-653 Nonpathogenic Members of the Genus Pseudomonas ....Pages 719-741 The Genus Xanthomonas ....Pages 742-763 The Genus Zoogloea ....Pages 764-770 The Genera Gluconobacter and Acetobacter ....Pages 771-778 Front Matter....Pages 779-779 Introduction to the Nitrogen-Fixing Prokaryotes....Pages 781-794 The Family Azotobacteraceae....Pages 795-817 The Genus Rhizobium ....Pages 818-841 The Genus Agrobacterium ....Pages 842-855 The Genus Alcaligenes ....Pages 856-861 Front Matter....Pages 863-863 The Hydrogen-Oxidizing Bacteria....Pages 865-893 The Methylotrophic Bacteria....Pages 894-902 The Hydrocarbon-Oxidizing Bacteria....Pages 903-912 The Denitrifying Prokaryotes....Pages 913-925 The Dissimilatory Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria....Pages 926-940 The Dissimilatory Sulfur-Reducing Bacteria....Pages 941-947 The Methanogenic Bacteria....Pages 948-977 Extreme Thermophiles of the Genera Thermus and Sulfolobus ....Pages 978-984 The Family Halobacteriaceae....Pages 985-994 Front Matter....Pages 995-995 Introduction to the Chemolithotrophic Bacteria....Pages 997-1004 The Family Nitrobacteraceae....Pages 1005-1022 Front Matter....Pages 995-995 The Genera Thiobacillus and Thiomicrospira ....Pages 1023-1036 Morphologically Conspicuous Sulfur-Oxidizing Eubacteria....Pages 1037-1048 The Genus Siderocapsa (and Other Iron- or Manganese-Oxidizing Eubacteria)....Pages 1049-1059 Front Matter....Pages 1061-1061 The Genus Brucella ....Pages 1063-1074 The Genus Bordetella ....Pages 1075-1085 The Genus Francisella ....Pages 1086-1090 The Genus Legionella ....Pages 1091-1102 Back Matter....Pages 1103-1259 A second edition of a three-volume set which, divided into six parts, covers bacteriology over the last decade. Parts one and two deal with classical attributes, parts three and four with phylogenetically related genera and parts five and six with symbiotic relationships and unplaced genera.