Table of Contents

Part One Introduction to MicrobiologyChapter: 1. The Evolution of Microorganisms and MicrobiologyChapter: 2. Microscopy and Specimen PreparationChapter: 3. Bacterial Cell Structure Chapter: 4. Archaeal Cell Structure Chapter: 5. Eukaryotic Cell Structure Chapter: 6. Viruses and Other Acellular Infectious AgentsPart Two Microbial Nutrition, Growth, and ControlChapter: 7. Microbial Growth Chapter: 8. Control of Microorganisms in the EnvironmentChapter: 9. Antimicrobial ChemotherapyPart Three Microbial MetabolismChapter: 10. Introduction to MetabolismChapter: 11. Catabolism: Energy Release and ConservationChapter: 12. Anabolism: The Use of Energy in Biosynthesis Part Four Microbial Molecular Biology and GeneticsChapter: 13. Bacterial Genome Replication and ExpressionChapter: 14. Regulation of Bacterial Cellular Processes Chapter: 15. Eukaryotic and Archaeal Genome Replication and Expression Chapter: 16. Mechanisms of Genetic Variation Chapter: 17. Recombinant DNA Technology Chapter: 18. Microbial Genomics Part Five The Diversity of the Microbial WorldChapter: 19. Microbial Taxonomy and the Evolution of Diversity Chapter: 20. The Archaea Chapter: 21. The Deinococci, Mollicutes, and Nonproteobacterial Gram-Negative Bacteria Chapter: 22. The Proteobacteria Chapter: 23. Firmicutes: The Low G ∙ C Gram-Positive Bacteria Chapter: 24. A ctinobacteria: The High G ∙ C Gram-Positive Bacteria Chapter: 25. The Protists Chapter: 26. The Fungi (Eumycota) Chapter: 27. The VirusesPart Six Ecology and SymbiosisChapter: 28. Biogeochemical Cycling and Global Climate ChangeChapter: 29. Methods in Microbial Ecology Chapter: 30. Microorganisms in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Chapter: 31. Microorganisms in Terrestrial Ecosystems Chapter: 32. Microbial Interactions Part Seven Pathogenicity and Host ResponseChapter: 33. Innate Host Resistance Chapter: 34. Adaptive Immunity Chapter: 35. Pathogenicity and Infection Part Eight Microbial Diseases, Detection, and Their ControlChapter: 36. Clinical Microbiology and Immunology Chapter: 37. Epidemiology and Public Health Microbiology Chapter: 38. Human Diseases Caused by Viruses and Prions Chapter: 39. Human Diseases Caused by Bacteria Chapter: 40. Human Diseases Caused by Fungi and Protists Part Nine Applied MicrobiologyChapter: 41. Microbiology of Food Chapter: 42. Biotechnology and Industrial Microbiology Chapter: 43. Applied Environmental Microbiology

About the Author

Joanne M. Willey has been a professor at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, since 1993, where she is the Leo A. Guthart Professor of Biomedical Science and Chair of the Department of Science Education at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.


Dr. Willey received her B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, where her interest in microbiology began with work on cyanobacterial growth in eutrophic streams. She earned her Ph.D. in biological oceanography (specializing
in marine microbiology) from the Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 1987. She then went to Harvard University, where she spent her postdoctoral fellowship studying the filamentous soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor. Dr. Willey has coauthored a number of publications that focus on its complex developmental cycle. She is an active member of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and served on the editorial board of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology for nine years and as Chair of the Division of General Microbiology. Dr. Willey taught microbiology to biology majors for 20 years and now teaches microbiology and infectious disease to medical students. She has taught courses in cell biology, marine microbiology, and laboratory techniques in molecular genetics.


Dr. Willey lives on the north shore of Long Island and has two grown sons. She is an avid runner and enjoys skiing, hiking, sailing, and reading. She can be reached at joanne.m.willey@ hofstra.edu.






Linda M. Sherwood is a member of the Department of Microbiology at the Montana State University.



Christopher J. Woolverton is Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent State University, Ohio.