Allies and Enemies: How the World Depends on Bacteria (36 page)
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Authors: Anne Maczulak
Tags: #Science, #Reference, #Non-Fiction
of bacteria
Thiomargarita namibiensis, 7
VFAs (volatile fatty acids), 152
Thiospirillum, 141
Vibrio cholerae, 38, 47
Thiovulum, 95
Vibrio phosphoreum, 142
Thomas, Dylan, 88
Vicia plants, 122
Thompson, George, 54
virulence factors, 59
Thoreau, Henry David, 87
viruses, bacteria versus, 3
thymine, 100
volatile fatty acids (VFAs), 152
Titanic (H.M.S.), 94
von Escherich, Theodore, 103
top-down control processes, 139
von Mutius, Erika, 30
Torella, Gaspar, 42
Vreeland, Russell, 37
traits, 63
transduction, 78
w
transformation, 77, 106
Wall Street, biotechnology stocks,
transporters, 79
112-113
treated water, antibiotics in, 67
The War of the Worlds (radio
Treponema, 40, 69
broadcast), 89-90
Treponema pallidum, 38, 41
Warren, Charles, 53
trichloroethylene (TCE), 158
wartime, infectious disease in, 58-61
Trichonympha sphaerica, 153
Washington, George, 88
Trojan Horse tactics, 76
210
index
wastewater
antibiotics in, 67
treatment, 158
water, antibiotics in, 67
water cycle, 33
water-lacking conditions,
bacteria in, 11
Watson, James, 4, 100
Welles, Orson, 89-90
white biotechnology, 102, 117,
119, 159
Wilson, Edward O., 21
winemaking, 36
Winogradsky column, 137-138
Winogradsky, Sergei, 94, 121-124,
133, 136
Woese, Carl, 21
Wolfe, Thomas, 87
World Wars I/II, infectious disease
in, 58-61
Wright, Almroth, 70-71
x–y–z
Xanthobacter, 158-159
xerophiles, 11
yellow pea plants, 122
Yersin, Alexandre, 49-50
Yersinia pestis, 38, 43, 50, 84
yogurt, 36
ZoBell, Claude, 148
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1 Why the world needs bacteria Tricks in bacterial survival Bacterial communities Under the microscope The size of life The bacteria of the human body The origins of our bacteria One planet Chapter 2 Bacteria in history The ancients The legacy of bacterial pathogens The plague Microbiologists save the day Unheralded heroes of bacteriology On the front Chapter 3 “Humans defeat germs!” (but not for long) What is an antibiotic? Inventing drugs is like making sausage Mutant wars Bacteria share their DNA The opportunists Chapter 4 Bacteria in popular culture Bacteria and art Bacteria in the performing arts Friends and enemies Do bacteria devour art?
Chapter 5 An entire industry from a single cell E. coli The power of cloning A chain reaction Bacteria on the street Anthrax Why we will always need bacteria Chapter 6 The invisible universe Versatility begets diversity Cyanobacteria Bacterial protein factories How to build an ecosystem Feedback and ecosystem maintenance Macrobiology Chapter 7 Climate, bacteria, and a barrel of oil The story of oil Bacteria power How is a cow like a cockroach? Microscopic power plants The waste problem Bacteria on Mars Shaping the planet Epilogue How microbiologists grow bacteria Serial dilution Counting bacteria Logarithms Anaerobic microbiology Aseptic technique Appendix: Resources for learning more about bacteria Internet resources on bacteria Book resources on bacteria Classic reading on bacteria Bacteria rule references
Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q-R S T U-V W X-Y-Z
