Table of Contents

1: Microbial diversity 2: How microbes operate 3: Molecular microbiology 4: Viruses 5: Microbiology of human health and disease 6: Microbial ecology and evolution 7: Microbes in agriculture and biotechnolohy Further reading Index

About the Author

Nicholas P. Money is Professor of Botany and Western Program Director at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed papers on fungal biology and has authored four books, including, Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists (2002), and Mushroom (2011) described by Nature magazine as a 'brilliant scientific and cultural exploration' of his research subject.

Reviews

For individuals from all backgrounds who need a succinct yet complete introduction to microbiology, this book is an ideal resource, and readers can use this book as a springboard into a wide variety of other topics in microbiology by using the resources for further reading provided at the end of the book. * R. K. Harris, CHOICE *