Microbes and the environment : perspectives and challenges / edited by Shuang-Jiang Liu, Harold L. Drake. — Beijing : Science Press, c2008. – (58.66/M626p(R))

Contents

    Contents
    
    Section A: Introduction
    Chapter 1 Current and future perspectives on the environmental importance of microorganisms
    Section B: Microbial Cycling of Elements in Diverse Habitats
    Chapter 2 Two impossible microbes with global implications: the nitrite-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane and ammonium
    Chapter 3 Microbial diversity in the deep-sea environments revealed by combined molecular approaches
    Chapter 4 Exploring an unknown world: bacteria of the deep biosphere below the seafloor
    Chapter 5 Temperature effects on methanogenic microbial communities
    Chapter 6 Microbial diversity under long-term fertilization regimes of Chinese soils
    Chapter 7 Functional gene assessment of denitrifying Prokaryotes: implications for understanding the ecology of denitrifiers
    Chapter 8 Uncultured microorganisms in Hainan mangrove soil: diversity and functional genes
    Chapter 9 Acetogens: anaerobic gamblers at the oxic-anoxic interface
    Chapter 10 Phosphorus cycling at water: sediment interface mediated by phosphorus-solublizing bacteria
    Chapter 11 Planktonic bacteria in Chinese and European lakes: are they different?
    Chapter 12 Phototrophic consortia: model systems for the interaction between nonrelated bacteria
    Section C: Bioremediation and Bioaugmentation: Harnessing Microbes
    Chapter 13 Microbial degradation of carbazole and dibenzofuran by Genus Sphingomonas: perspective and challenge
    Chapter 14 Microbiology and application of biological sulfate reduction
    Chapter 15 Effect of oil contamination and bioremediation on bacterial communities in polar sea-ice environments
    Chapter 16 Diverse strategies of polychlorophenol degradation by microorganisms
    Chapter 17 Microbial iron oxidation and the degradation of persistent organic pollutants
    Chapter 18 Effect of metal-reducing microorganisms on element fluxes in a former uranium-mining district
    Chapter 19 Reductive dehalogenation of chlorinated aromatic compounds by anaerobic bacteria
    Chapter 20 Degradation and assimilation of aromatic compounds by Corynebacterium glutamicum
    Chapter 21 Host-vector systems for hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus
    Index