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Bacterial Growth and Form

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  1. Arthur L. Koch
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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Prologue: Thinking about Bacteria

    • Arthur L. Koch
    Pages 1-7

  3. From the First Cell to the Last Universal Ancestor (LUA)

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    Pages 9-36

  4. Contrasting the Cellular Abilities of Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes

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    Pages 37-47

  5. Bacterial Growth

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    Pages 49-101

  6. Synthesis of Functional Bacterial Wall

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    Pages 103-134

  7. Turgor Pressure of Bacterial Cells

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    Pages 135-160

  8. The Surface Stress Theory: Non-Vitalism in Action

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    Pages 161-190

  9. Mechanical Aspects of Cell Division

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    Pages 191-214

  10. The Gram-Positive Coccus: Enterococcus hirae

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    Pages 215-237

  11. Gram-Positive Rod-Shaped Organisms: Bacillus subtilis

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    Pages 239-270

  12. The Gram-Negative Rod: Escherichia coli

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    Pages 271-330

  13. Apical Growth of Streptomycetes and Fungi

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    Pages 331-351

  14. Twisting and Rotation during the Growth of Gram-Positive Rods

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    Pages 353-365

  15. The Structural and Physiological Roles of the Layers of the Gram-Negative Bacterial Envelope

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    Pages 367-390

  16. Gliding Motility, Protonmotive Force Motor, and Flagellar Rotation

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    Pages 391-408

  17. Prokaryotic Perspective

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    Pages 409-424

  18. Wars over Bacterial Walls

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    Pages 425-441

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 443-470
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About this book

I assume that you already know a good deal of microbiology. In this book, I frequently use the word "we" by which I mean "you and I". Together we are going to consider bacteriology from a broader perspective and we will think our way through the important biological problems that are frequently just skipped over in every microbiology course. My most important reason for writing this book is to make accessible the relevant thinking from fields of science other than microbiology that are important to microbiology. The book is written for people that have already have a fascination with bacteria, but can see that their background for understanding is far complete. This book consists of topics that are largely omitted from microbiology textbooks and includes some mathematics, physics, chemistry, and evolutionary biology. It contains a good deal of my own work, both experimental and theoretical, together with a lot of speculation. If ten times bigger, it would be a full text book on microbial physiology. A third of the microbial physiology is covered by the recent is no longer treated even in textbook by White (2000). Another third current specialized tests and is greatly underrepresented in text books.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bacterial Growth and Form

  • Authors: Arthur L. Koch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0827-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0067-6Published: 31 December 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5844-7Published: 27 January 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-0827-2Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: VII, 470

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medical Microbiology, Bacteriology, Biochemistry, general, Evolutionary Biology

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