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This book introduces Planctomycetes bacteria and deals in detail with their unusual structure, physiology, genomics and evolutionary significance. It is a definitive summary of recent knowledge of this important distinctive group of bacteria, microorganisms which challenge our very concept of the bacterium. Planctomycetes, and their relatives within the PVC superphylum of domain Bacteria, including verrucomicrobia and chlamydia, challenge our classical concept of the bacterium and its modes of life and provide new experimental models for exploring evolutionary cell biology and the full diversity of how living cells can be organized internally. Unique among bacteria, they include species possessing cells with intracellular membrane-bounded compartments and a peptidoglycan-less cell wall, and bacteria such as the anammox organisms performing unique anaerobic ammonium oxidation significant for global nitrogen cycle.
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This book introduces Planctomycetes bacteria and deals in detail with their unusual structure, physiology, genomics and evolutionary significance. It is a definitive summary of recent knowledge of this important distinctive group of bacteria, microorganisms which challenge our very concept of the bacterium. Planctomycetes, and their relatives within the PVC superphylum of domain Bacteria, including verrucomicrobia and chlamydia, challenge our classical concept of the bacterium and its modes of life and provide new experimental models for exploring evolutionary cell biology and the full diversity of how living cells can be organized internally. Unique among bacteria, they include species possessing cells with intracellular membrane-bounded compartments and a peptidoglycan-less cell wall, and bacteria such as the anammox organisms performing unique anaerobic ammonium oxidation significant for global nitrogen cycle.
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“… Reichhaltig illustriert und wissenschaftlich auf hohem Niveau erfordert die Lektüre fundierte Kenntnisse der Mikrobiologie. Es empfiehlt sich daher für fortgeschrittene Studenten ... ist das Buch auch für Wissenschaftler interessant ...” (Werner Liesack, in: BIO Spektrum, November/2013, Vol. 19, Issue 7)
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Aus den Rezensionen:
"... Reichhaltig illustriert und wissenschaftlich auf hohem Niveau erfordert die Lektüre fundierte Kenntnisse der Mikrobiologie. Es empfiehlt sich daher für fortgeschrittene Studenten ... ist das Buch auch für Wissenschaftler interessant ..." (Werner Liesack, in: BIO Spektrum, November/2013, Vol. 19, Issue 7)
