Brown J. Principles of Microbial Diversity

ASM Press, 2014. - 390 p.
Every speck of dust, drop of water, and grain of soil and each part of every plant and animal contain their own worlds of microbes.
Designed as a key text for upper-level undergraduates majoring in microbiology, genetics, or biology, Principles of Microbial Diversity provides a solid curriculum for students to explore the enormous range of biological diversity in the microbial world. Within these richly illustrated pages, author and professor James W. Brown provides a practical guide to microbial diversity from a phylogenetic perspective in which students learn to construct and interpret evolutionary trees from DNA sequences. He then offers a survey of the tree of life that establishes the necessary basic knowledge about the microbial world.