قراءات إضافية

Microbiology is such a vibrant area of research that any book that aims to be current is certain to miss important findings within months of publication. Academic journals are the best source of current information and the following periodicals offer reviews of ongoing microbiological research: Annual Review of Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Current Opinion in Microbiology, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology, FEMS Microbiology Letters, FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Frontiers in Microbiology, Fungal Biology Reviews, Letters in Applied Microbiology, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, Microbiology Today, Nature Reviews Microbiology, and Trends in Microbiology.

الفصل الأول: التنوع الميكروبي

There are several introductory textbooks on microbiology. M. T. Madigan, J. M. Martinko, D. Stahl, and D. P. Clark, Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 13th edition (San Francisco: Benjamin Cummins, 2010) is among the best, providing a wealth of information supported with excellent illustrations. It is particularly strong on the complicated topic of microbial metabolism. This book, like most microbiology texts, concentrates on prokaryotes and viruses. One of my previous books provides a contemporary view of biodiversity with emphasis on eukaryotic microbes: N. P. Money, The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes (Oxford University Press, 2014). Photosynthetic eukaryotic microorganisms, or algae, are introduced in greater detail in L. Barsanti and P. Gualtieri, Algae: Anatomy, Biochemistry, and Biotechnology, 2nd edition (Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2014). The following website is a useful supplement to these books because it presents a clickable evolutionary tree that directs readers to details on individual groups of microorganisms: “http://www.tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html”.

الفصل الثاني: آلية عمل الميكروبات

F. M. Harold, The Vital Force: A Study of Bioenergetics (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1986).
D. G. Nicholls and S. Ferguson, Bioenergetics, 4th edition (Amsterdam: Elsevier, Academic Press, 2013).

الفصل الثالث: علم الوراثة الميكروبية وعلم الأحياء الدقيقة الجزيئي

B. Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell, 5th edition (New York: Garland Science, 2007).
L. Snyder, J. E. Peters, T. M. Henkin, and W. Champness, Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, 4th edition (Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2013).

الفصل الرابع: الفيروسات

J. Carter and V. Saunders, Virology: Principles and Applications, 2nd edition (Chichester: Wiley: 2013).
D. H. Crawford, Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011).
C. Zimmer, A Planet of Viruses (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

الفصل الخامس: علم الأحياء الدقيقة وعلاقته بالصحة والمرض لدى الإنسان

S. G. B. Amyes, Bacteria: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2011).
M. J. Blaser, Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues (New York: Henry Holt, 2014).
L. Collier, J. Oxford, and P. Kellam, Human Virology, 4th edition (Oxford University Press, 2011).
K. Murphy, Janeway’s Immunobiology, 8th edition (New York: Garland, 2011).
L. M. Sompayrac, How the Immune System Works, 4th edition (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

الفصل السادس: علم البيئة الميكروبي والتطور

C. Gerday and N. Glansdorff (eds.), Physiology and Biochemistry of Extremophiles (Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2007).
D. L. Kirchman (ed.), Microbial Ecology of the Oceans, 2nd edition (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008).
D. L. Kirchman, Processes in Microbial Ecology (Oxford University Press, 2012).
R. V. Miller and L. G. White, Polar Microbiology: Life in a Deep Freeze (Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2012).
F. Rohwer, M. Youle, and D. Vosten, Coral Reefs in the Microbial Seas (Basalt, Colo.: Plaid Press, 2010).

الفصل السابع: الميكروبات في الزراعة والتكنولوجيا الحيوية

M. P. Doyle and R. L. Buchanan, Food Microbiology: Fundamentals and Frontiers, 4th edition (Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2013).
B. R. Glick, J. J. Pasternak, and C. L. Patten, Molecular Biotechnology: Principles and Applications of Recombinant DNA, 4th edition (Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2009).
E. A. Paul, Soil Microbiology, Ecology and Agriculture, 3rd edition (Amsterdam: Elsevier, Academic Press, 2007).