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Uncultivated Microorganisms

Slava S. Epstein (Herausgeber)

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X, 208 Seiten

2009
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-85464-7 (ISBN)

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In 1898, an Austrian microbiologist Heinrich Winterberg made a curious observation: the number of microbial cells in his samples did not match the number of colonies formed on nutrient media (Winterberg 1898). About a decade later, J. Amann qu- tified this mismatch, which turned out to be surprisingly large, with non-growing cells outnumbering the cultivable ones almost 150 times (Amann 1911). These papers signify some of the earliest steps towards the discovery of an important phenomenon known today as the Great Plate Count Anomaly (Staley and Konopka 1985). Note how early in the history of microbiology these steps were taken. Detecting the Anomaly almost certainly required the Plate. If so, then the period from 1881 to 1887, the years when Robert Koch and Petri introduced their key inventions (Koch 1881; Petri 1887), sets the earliest boundary for the discovery, which is remarkably close to the 1898 observations by H. Winterberg. Celebrating its 111th anniversary, the Great Plate Count Anomaly today is arguably the oldest unresolved microbiological phenomenon. In the years to follow, the Anomaly was repeatedly confirmed by all microb- logists who cared to compare the cell count in the inoculum to the colony count in the Petri dish (cf., Cholodny 1929; Butkevich 1932; Butkevich and Butkevich 1936). By mid-century, the remarkable difference between the two counts became a universally recognized phenomenon, acknowledged by several classics of the time (Waksman and Hotchkiss 1937; ZoBell 1946; Jannasch and Jones 1959).

S S Epstein: The long history of a puzzling phenomenon; J Bunge: Statistical estimation of uncultivated microbial diversity; M L Sogin, J A Huber: Unveiling microbial diversity through advances in DNA sequencing; T Gentry, Z He, J Zhou: Detection and Characterization of Uncultivated Microorganisms using Microarrays; A Boetius: Measuring geochemical activities of uncultivated microorganisms; M Podar, M Keller, P Hugenholtz: Insights into novel biodiversity using single-cell genome amplification approaches; T Schmidt, A Konopka: Slow growing microbes: ecological strategies and consequences for cultivation; R Colwell: Viable but not cultivable microorganisms; S S Epstein: General model of microbial uncultivability; V Miao, J Davies: Metagenomic approaches to drug discovery; K Lewis: Persisters, biofilms, and the problem of uncultivability; K H Nealson: Taking the concept to the limit: uncultivable bacteria and astrobiology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.7.2009
Reihe/Serie	Microbiology Monographs
Zusatzinfo	X, 208 p. 33 illus., 10 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	537 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Physiologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Schlagworte	Astrobiology • Bacterial biodiversity • biodiversity • Biofilm • Biofilms • Biogeochemical activities • DNA arrays • Metagenomics • microbe • Microbiology • Microorganism
ISBN-10	3-540-85464-9 / 3540854649
ISBN-13	978-3-540-85464-7 / 9783540854647
Zustand	Neuware