The Phototrophic Prokaryotes

by Gïnter A. Peschek (Editor), Wolfgang Lïffelhardt (Editor), Georg Schmetterer (Editor)

Overview

This book represents a concise scientific summary of the latest result s of scientific research on Phototrophic prokaryotes. It covers in dep th the huge variety of bacteria capable of utilizing light as their en ergy source, all aspects of structure and development, genetics and mo lecular biology, experimental and physiological ecology and taxonomy, and metabolism and bioenergetics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306459238
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/31/1999
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	836
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Historical Perspectives: Research on Purple Bacteria During Twenty-Four Years of International Symposia on Photosynthetic Prokaryotes; G. Drews. Freiburg to Vienna-Looking at Cyanobacteria over the Twenty-Five Years; N.G. Carr. Photosynthesis: Structural and Functional Analyses of Cyanobacterial Photosystem I: The Directionality of Electron Transfer; F. Yang, et al. Electron Transport and Bioenergetics: Photosynthesis and Respiration of Cyanobacteria: Bioenergetic Significance and Molecular Interactions; G.A. Peschek. Genome Analysis and Molecular Biology: From Plastid to Cyanobacterial Genomes; M. Sugiura. Metabolism of N, C, H: Cyanobacterial Nitrogen Assimilation Genes and NtcA-Dependent Control of Gene Expression; E. Flores, et al. Ecology and Symbiosis. Widening Perceptions of the Occurrence and Significance of Cyanobacterial Toxins; G.A. Codd, et al. Phylogeny, Taxonomy, and Evolution: Identification of a Putative Gamma Linker Polypeptide Gene in the Marine Oxyphotobacterium Prochlorococcus Marinus: Implications for the Phylogeny of Prochlorococcus Phycoerythrins; W.R. Hess, F. Partensky. 86 Additional Articles. Index.

Editorial Reviews

Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium, Vienna, Austria, September 1997. Ninety-four contributions discuss such subjects as photosynthesis, electron transport and bioenergetics, genome analysis and molecular biology, and ecology and symbiosis. They also address the metabolism of N, C, H; and study phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution. A sampling of specific topics: circadian rhythms of gene expression in cyanobacteria, the natural selection of gas vesicles, isolation and characterization of psychrophilic purple bacteria from Antarctica. Indexed by subject, organism, and gene. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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