Overview
- Focuses on the cell biology of planctomycetes
- Provides details on the significant ecology and enviromental significance of planctomycetes
- Examines planctomycetes' unusual structure, physiology, genomics and evolutionary significance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Planctomycetes: Cell Structure, Origins and Biology
Editors: John A. Fuerst
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-502-6
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-501-9Published: 20 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-940-6Published: 09 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-62703-502-6Published: 20 July 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 286
Topics: Life Sciences, general, Cell Physiology, Microbiology, Bacteriology