本书原版是国际上最具声誉的微生物学教科书之一,2017年最新版次为第10版。本书秉承《Prescott微生物学》一直以来博大精深、新颖、系统的特点,几乎涵盖了微生物学领域的所有概念,具有一定的深度和广度。全书共9篇43章,既包含学习微生物学的目的、微生物学的化学原理、研究微生物的技术方法、微生物的特性、分类、细胞的组分、结构、营养、生态、生长、代谢、遗传、遗传工程和控制,又涵盖微生物多样性、微生物生态、病理与免疫、微生物检测及应用微生物学。全书有超过900幅的高质量插图,许多图片精心设计并以分步方式给出,可以帮助学生想象复杂的细胞和分子过程,训练学生洞幽察微、抽象思维的能力。
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William S. Klug is a retired Professor of Biology at the College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College) in Ewing, New Jersey. He served as chair of the Biology Department for 17 years, a position to which he was first elected in 1974. He received his B.A. degree in Biology from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Evan...