Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals : an integrated approach /
"The study of microbes and how they interact with the environment and their hosts has a fascinating history. Remarkably, we first managed to visualise microorganisms over 300 years ago. In the mid seventeenth century, Robert Hooke used a microscope to present the first scientific depiction of a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1. |
| Series: | Ecological reviews.
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| Summary: | "The study of microbes and how they interact with the environment and their hosts has a fascinating history. Remarkably, we first managed to visualise microorganisms over 300 years ago. In the mid seventeenth century, Robert Hooke used a microscope to present the first scientific depiction of a fungus (Hooke, 1665), and shortly thereafter, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used a singlelens microscope to describe the 'animalcules' that we now know to have been bacteria and protists (Van Leeuwenhoek, 1677; Lane, 2015). Two hundred years later, Angelina Fanny Hesse pioneered the use of agar media instead of a gelatin-based alternative to culture bacteria (Hitchens & Leikind, 1939) that subsequently allowed the isolation of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Koch, 1882)"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume : illustrations (black and white). |
| ISBN: | 9781108473712 1108473717 9781108462488 1108462480 |