Part I: Recognizing the Role of Microorganisms in our World
Chapter 1: Our living world rests upon a foundation of microorganisms: the constant struggle for habitat and niche
Author: Christon J. Hurst ^
Chapter 2: Darwin’s Science’s Impact on the Evolution of the Microbiological Sciences
Author: Kenneth M. Noll ^
Chapter 3: Microbes and marine sediments: a life-long relationship on Earth’s Biosphere
Author: Jerónimo Pan ^
Chapter 4: The Democracy of Dirt: relating Micro-scale dynamics to macro-scale ecosystem function
Author: Joshua Schimel ^
Part II: Microbial life persists within even the most extreme environments
Chapter 5: The concept of evanescent microbial ecosystems in Earth’s atmosphere
Author: Dale Warren Griffin ^
Chapter 6: When the vital signs of microbial life go cold, does that mean the pulse is gone? Microbial life persists at the limits of cryoenvironments on Earth
Author: Jacqueline Marie Goordial ^
Chapter 7: Lithotrophic (“Stone Eating”) Microbes Provide the Foundation for Deep Subsurface Ecosystems
Author: Thomas L. Kieft ^
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Part III: Understanding the core values of microbial metabolism
Chapter 8: Miraculous fixation of molecular nitrogen from the atmosphere
Author: Vladimír Klaban ^
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Chapter 9: Mutagens, radicals, rocket fuel and laughing gas - stringing metabolic modules to survive on nitrogenous poisons
Authors: Martin G. Klotz and Lisa Y. Stein ^
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Chapter 10: The grand microbial variety show
Author: Aharon Oren ^
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Part IV: Microbes established and sustain life
Chapter 11: Microbes’ many roles in climate change: contribution, consequence, mitigation, and model system
Author: Sanghoon Kang ^
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Chapter 12: The Revolutionary Potential of the Hidden Half of Nature in Agriculture and Medicine
Author: David R. Montgomery ^
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Chapter 13: Microscale Carbon Cycling Between Bacteria and Algae Under the Sun
Author: Xavier Mayali ^
Part V: The basic aspects of microbial symbioses
Chapter 14: Discovering the Symbiotic Nature of Microbial Life: Summarizing Milestone Publications from 1866 through 1947
Author: Christon J. Hurst ^
Chapter 15: Microscopic World and the Phenomenon of Symbiosis in the Natural Environment
Author: Vladimír Klaban ^
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Chapter 16: Symbiosis in a rapidly changing world
Authors: Kerry M. Oliver and Clesson H. V. Higashi
Chapter 17: Diversity-function relationships and the underlying ecological mechanisms in host-associated microbial communities
Author: Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler ^
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Chapter 18: Darwinian medicine: we evolved to require continuing contact with the microbiota of the natural environment. Evolution turns the inevitable into a necessity
Author: Graham A. W. Rook ^t;
Chapter 19: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Enzyme ACC Deaminase
Authors: Shimaila Ali and Bernard R. Glick ^
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Chapter 20: The diazotroph as an endophyte and how a diazotroph interacts with its plant host
Author: Se-Chul Chun ^<^
Chapter 21: The Hologenome Hypothesis and its Application to Plant-Microbe Interactions on an Evolutionary Scale
Authors: Saber Kouas, Noor Khan, and Ann M. Hirsch ^&^<^
Chapter 22: Beneficial role of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in bioremediation of heavy metal(loid) contaminated agricultural fields
Authors: Krishnendu Pramanik, Sandipan Banerjee, Debosmita Mukherjee, Kunal Kumar Saha, Tushar Kanti Maiti, Narayan Chandra Mandal ^
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Chapter 23: Defensive microbiomes: a widespread phenomenon in nature
Author: Sarah Worsley ^
Chapter 24: Coevolution of molluscs and their microbes
Authors: Aide Lasa and Jesús L. Romalde ;
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Chapter 25: Invisible interactions between microorganisms
Author: Kenji Ueda
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