This book presents recent scientific investigations in microbial ecology and systematics. Advanced microbial science investigations employ the latest technologi

Methods in microbial systematics have developed and changed significantly in the last 40 years. This has resulted in considerable change in both the defining mi

Modern approaches to microbial classification and identification, particularly those based on nucleic acid analysis, have raised the awareness and interest of m

Bacterial taxonomy as a specialized discipline is practised by a minority but the applications of taxonomy are important to most, if not all microbiologists. It

The great diversity of microbial life is the remaining major reservoir of unknown biological diversity on earth. To understand this vast, but largely unperceive