Preface ixAcknowledgments xiAbout the Authors xiiiPart I Fundamentals of Microbial Life 11 A Microbial Planet 22 Microbial Cell Exterior: Envelopes and Appendages 223 Microbial Cell Interior 524 Microbial Cell Growth and Division 725 Microbial Metabolism 966 Bioenergetics of Fueling 1147 Synthesis of Building Blocks 1448 Building Macromolecules 1809 Building the Cell Envelope 21210 Inheritance and Information Flow 23411 Coordination of Cell Processes 26812 Succeeding in the Environment 29213 Differentiation and Development in Bacteria 324Part II Microbial Diversity 34714 Bacteria and Archaea 34815 The Fungi 37616 Protists 39217 The Viruses 41418 Viral Latency 450Part III Microbial Ecology 47119 Microbial Communities 47220 Cycles of Elements 50421 Microbial Interactions 53622 The Human Gut Microbiome 570Part IV Microbial Pathogenesis 58523 Infection: The Vertebrate Host 58624 Opportunistic Infections by Microbiota: MRSA 61025 Intracellular Pathogens: Listeria and Mycobacterium 62626 Toxins and Epidemic Cholera: Phage Giveth, and Phage Taketh Away 64627 Zoonoses: How Plague Emerged from a Foodborne Illness 662Coda 675Glossary 677Index 70
MICHELE S. SWANSON, PHD, is a professor in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her research group investigates how metabolic cues govern Legionella pneumophila's resilience in the environment and virulence in phagocytes.ELIZABETH A. JOYCE, PHD, is a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California at San Francisco where her primary role is teaching microbiology and immunology in the schools of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy.RACHEL E.A. HORAK, MA, PHD, is a senior specialist in the Education Department at the American Society for Microbiology, where she facilitates a large, international faculty learning community of microbiology educators with the goal of increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion for all undergraduate students.
