Environmental Sanitation Microbiology

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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Manual of Environmental Microbiology

Protistan assemblages of aquatic ecosystems are the focus of extensive research in aquatic ecology. One stimulus for this work has been the long-standing recognition that phototrophic protists (the unicellular algae) constitute a major fraction of the primary productivity within aquatic ecosystems. Another incentive has been the realization that protozoa (heterotrophic protists) play a pivotal ...

Food Safety and Environmental Sanitation

Microbial biotechnology meets environmental microbiology

Amir Aharoni, Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. The size of the microbial world is beyond our imagination. In last year’s crystal ball article, Tom Curtis compared the size of the microbial world to the size of the universe pointing out that the number of microorganisms in the world is billion...

Environmental Microbiology meets Microbial Biotechnology

We would like to begin this editorial by paying a modest but sincere tribute to Professor Kenneth Timmis for his recent nomination as a member of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom. Kenneth Timmis has pioneered science fields related to plasmid replication, biodegradation, microbial ecology, biodiversity and most recently metagenomics. In addition, to these many relevant scientific contrib...