Schlegel, Hans G. and Botho Bowien, eds. — Autotrophic Bacteria

Berlin, Germany, Springer-Verlag, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Brock/Springer Series in Contemporary Bioscience. A fine survey of Autotrophic bacteria, bound in green pictorial cloth over boards, black-and-white photograph to front cover, white lettering to front cover and spine. Contributions by the two editors, Hans G. Schlegel and Botho Bowien, with others by Thomas Brock, Georgi A. Zavarzin, Harland G. Wood, J. Gijs Kuenen and Pieter Bos, Eberhard Bock, Hans-Peter Koops, and Heinz Harms, Norbert Pfennig, Bo Barker, Jorgensen Holger, W. Jannasch, Karl O. Stetter, Claudius K. Stumm and Godfried D. Vogels, Don P. Kelly, Douglas C. Nelson, Alan B. Hooper, Hans G. Truper, Elena N. Kondratieva, Ralf Steudel, Ortwin Meyer, Bruce A. McFadden, Georg Fuchs, Gerhard Gottschalk, Rudolf K. Thauer, Barbel Friedrich, Herhart Drews and many others. From the publisher's blurb, "Autotrophic bacteria, those prokaryotes that obtain all carbon required for biosynthesis from inorganic sources, are among the dominant organisms involved in the natural cycling of matter. The formation of iron, sulfur, and limestone deposits, and of oil, coal, and natural gas would not be possible without autotrophic bacteria. Ecosystems, as we know them, would not function without these prokaryotes. The uniqueness of the autotrophic bacteria was first recognized 100 years ago by the great Russian bacteriologist S.N. Winogradsky. Since that time, research on these bacteria has revolutionized our ideas of the evolution of bacteria and higher life forms, as well as contributed greatly to advances in our understanding of photosynthesis and other biochemical processes. In this volume, a group of distinguished scientists presents the latest research on the diversity, ecology, biochemistry, molecular biology, evolution, and genetics of autotrophic bacteria." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii [2], 1-528 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine