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March of the microbes : sighting the unseen /
Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the workings of snowmaking machines, Botox,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword by Roberto Kolter; 1. The Microbial Landscape; 2. Acquiring Metabolic Energy; 3. Food and Drink; 4. Living Together; 5. Cycling Nitrogen; 6. Cycling Sulfur; 7. Cycling Carbon; 8. Hostile Environments; 9. Fungi, Hostile and Benign; 10. Viruses; 11. Felonious Bacteria; 12. Shapers of the Planet; 13. Closer to Us; 14. Survivors; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Index.