Overview
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Terry J. McGenity
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University of Essex, School of Biological Sciences University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
- Comprehensive, authoritative information about the taxonomy, genomics and ecophysiology of hydrocarbon-degrading microorganisms
- Particular attention is given to the the global consequences of microbes utilising hydrocarbons
- Experts of the field explore aerobic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria, as well as anerobic hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria
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Table of contents (19 entries)
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- Alison Buchan, José M. González, Michelle J. Chua
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- Michael A. Kertesz, Akitomo Kawasaki, Andreas Stolz
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- KaeKyoung Kwon, Yong Min Kwon, Sang-Jin Kim
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- Aleksei A. Korzhenkov, Stepan V. Toshchakov, Olga V. Golyshina, Manuel Ferrer, Tatyana N. Chernikova, Karl-Erich Jaeger et al.
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- Irene A. Davidova, Christopher R. Marks, Joseph M. Suflita
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- Svetlana N. Dedysh, Peter F. Dunfield
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- Catherine Rafin, Etienne Veignie
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- Watumesa A. Tan, Rebecca E. Parales
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- Cristina CoscolÃn, Rafael Bargiela, Mónica MartÃnez-MartÃnez, Sandra Alonso, Alexander Bollinger, Stephan Thies et al.
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- Michail M. Yakimov, Peter N. Golyshin, Francesca Crisafi, Renata Denaro, Laura Giuliano
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- Roger C. Prince, Tivkaa J. Amande, Terry J. McGenity
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- Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya, Oscar A. Gomez, J. Colin Murrell
About this book
This book provides comprehensive, authoritative descriptions of the microbes involved in cleaning up oil spills and degrading climate-altering hydrocarbons such as methane, and has detailed discussions about the taxonomy, ecology, genomics, physiology and global significance of these hydrocarbon-degrading microbes.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Essex, School of Biological Sciences University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
Terry J. McGenity
About the editor
Terry McGenity is a Reader at the University of Essex, UK. His PhD, investigating the microbial ecology of ancient salt deposits (University of Leicester), was followed by postdoctoral positions at the Japan Marine Science and Technology Centre (JAMSTEC, Yokosuka) and the Postgraduate Research Institute for Sedimentology (University of Reading). His overarching research interest is to understand how microbial communities function and interact to influence major biogeochemical processes. He worked as a postdoc with Ken Timmis at the University of Essex, where he was inspired to investigate microbial interactions with hydrocarbons at multiple scales, from communities to cells, and as both a source of food and stress. He has broad interests in microbial ecology and diversity, particularly with respect to carbon cycling (especially the second most abundantly produced hydrocarbon in the atmosphere, isoprene), and is driven to better understand how microbes cope with, or flourish in hypersaline, desiccated and poly-extreme environments.
He was already section editor at the first edition of this multi-volume Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology (2010), and he is co-editor for the 17-volume Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols 2016.
