Biology & Microbiology

For majors and mixed majors courses in Introductory Microbiology in departments of biology and microbiology.

The authoritative text for introductory microbiology, Brock Biology of Microorganisms continues its long tradition of impeccable scholarship, outstanding art and photos, and accuracy. It balances the most current coverage with the major classical and contemporary concepts essential for understanding microbiology. The authors' clear, accessible writing style speaks to today's students while maintaining the depth and precision science majors need.

• NEW - Now divided into six units—Featuring seven new chapters. Unit I is organized around foundation topics and can be used as the basis of a one-semester course if desired. Many of the chapters in Unit I are now more tightly focused and additional detail has been moved to related chapters later in the book.

  • Allows groups of related chapters to be clustered together within a major theme thus making it easier to relate thematic coverage to core materials in Unit I and to course goals.

• NEW - Two full units devoted to medical microbiology—The New Chapter 29, Food Preservation and Foodborne Microbial Diseases, is one of the most exciting areas in infectious disease today. The New Chapter 28, Wastewater Treatment, Water Purification, and Waterborne Microbial Diseases, starts with water purification and then leads into coverage of water-borne diseases.

  • Provides instructors with a convenient organization for those who wish to emphasize this subject area.

• NEW - Online Student Media Package—The animated tutorials and interactive exercises included on the Brock Biology of Microorganisms 10e Website help students visualize and understand microbiology! Students and faculty will also find many other helpful resources on the Website including: Web Destinations, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, Art Labeling and Critical Thinking Quizzes along with Advances in Microbiology activities along with additional problems in the Testing Center. Please visit www.prenhall.com/madigan

  • Concepts introduced in class are reinforced through high-quality media.

• NEW - Chapter on “Essentials of Virology” in Unit 1—Includes the basics of what is a virus; types of nucleic acids in viruses; replication events; and lysogeny.

  • Supplies students with descriptions of bacterial and animal viruses as examples.

• NEW - Chapter on “Microbial Genomics”—Located in Unit II both to draw more from previous chapters and to tie genomes to organisms.

  • Assembles the essentials of what is coming out of the microbial genomics projects, from bacteria to yeast.

• NEW - Updated content throughout—Includes the most significant cutting-edge developments in research.

  • Keeps students up-to-date with current developments in research.

• NEW - Overview Chapter on Microbial Diversity in Unit 1—Coverage of basic cell biology and evolutionary relationships in Bacteria, Archaea, and microbial eukaryoks.

  • Provides the early overview of this topic that so many instructors have requested.

• Evolutionary theme integrated throughout.

  • Enables instructors to convey the modern view of evolution and how it affects our understanding of molecular biology, genetics, metabolism, microbial ecology, and microbial classification. Unites otherwise unrelated material for students in a consistent context, making concepts easier to grasp.

• Coverage of bacterial genetics—Combines a mixture of classical bacterial genetics with “molecular” in vivo genetics.

  • Presents students with a balance of classical and modern approaches yet brings in all of the relevant genetic tools as well as mechanisms of recombination.

• Diverse scholarship—Author's research specialties cover a wide array of topics: general/organismal (Madigan); molecular/genetic (Parker); and medical/immunology (Martinko).

  • Helps maintain student interest by giving a balanced perspective of the main topics in microbiology.

• Interesting scientific asides in boxed inserts—Techniques and Application, describe methods in microbiology and their application in the real world; Learning from the Past, describe historical developments in microbiology and their implications today; and A Focus On... addresses text topics in greater detail.

  • Piques students' curiosity by highlighting different/more applied aspects of the material as well as dipping more deeply into selected topics.

• Numbered major headings and Concept Links with icons for extensive cross-referencing—Unifies the book by integrating material from all chapters.

  • Enables students to see the connections between concepts and gain a full understanding of the material.

• Concept Checks review questions within each chapter.

  • Alerts students to missed or misunderstood concepts that require further review.

• Now divided into six units—Featuring seven new chapters. Unit I is organized around foundation topics and can be used as the basis of a one-semester course if desired. Many of the chapters in Unit I are now more tightly focused and additional detail has been moved to related chapters later in the book.

  • Allows groups of related chapters to be clustered together within a major theme thus making it easier to relate thematic coverage to core materials in Unit I and to course goals.

• Two full units devoted to medical microbiology—The New Chapter 29, Food Preservation and Foodborne Microbial Diseases, is one of the most exciting areas in infectious disease today. The New Chapter 28, Wastewater Treatment, Water Purification, and Waterborne Microbial Diseases, starts with water purification and then leads into coverage of water-borne diseases.

  • Provides instructors with a convenient organization for those who wish to emphasize this subject area.

• Online Student Media Package—The animated tutorials and interactive exercises included on the Brock Biology of Microorganisms 10e Website help students visualize and understand microbiology! Students and faculty will also find many other helpful resources on the Website including: Web Destinations, Multiple Choice, Fill in the Blank, Art Labeling and Critical Thinking Quizzes along with Advances in Microbiology activities along with additional problems in the Testing Center. Please visit www.prenhall.com/madigan

  • Concepts introduced in class are reinforced through high-quality media.

• Chapter on “Essentials of Virology” in Unit 1—Includes the basics of what is a virus; types of nucleic acids in viruses; replication events; and lysogeny.

  • Supplies students with descriptions of bacterial and animal viruses as examples.

• Chapter on “Microbial Genomics”—Located in Unit II both to draw more from previous chapters and to tie genomes to organisms.

  • Assembles the essentials of what is coming out of the microbial genomics projects, from bacteria to yeast.

• Updated content throughout—Includes the most significant cutting-edge developments in research.

  • Keeps students up-to-date with current developments in research.

• Overview Chapter on Microbial Diversity in Unit 1—Coverage of basic cell biology and evolutionary relationships in Bacteria, Archaea, and microbial eukaryoks.

  • Provides the early overview of this topic that so many instructors have requested.

I. PRINCIPLES OF MICROBIOLOGY.

II. EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY AND MICROBIAL DIVERSITY.

III. METABOLIC DIVERSITY AND MICROBIAL ECOLOGY.

IV. PATHOGENICITY, HOST RESPONSES, AND IMMUNOLOGY.

V. MICROBIAL DISEASES.

VI. MICROORGANISMS AS TOOLS FOR INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH.

General Microbiology (majors only)  (Biology & Microbiology)
Introduction to Microbiology (Mixed Majors)  (Biology & Microbiology)

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  Brock Biology of Microorganisms, 12/E
  Madigan, Martinko, Dunlap & Clark
  ©2009 | Benjamin Cummings | Cloth; 1168 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132324601 | ISBN-13: 9780132324601
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  The authoritative text for introductory microbiology, Brock Biology of Microorganisms continues its long tradition of impeccable scholarship, accuracy, and outstanding illustrations and photos. This book for biology, microbiology, and other science majors balances the most current science coverage with the concepts essential for understanding the field of microbiology. Now reorganized for greater flexibility and updated with findings from new research, the Twelfth Edition speaks to today’s students while maintaining the depth and precision science majors need.

   

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Michael T. Madigan received a bachelor's degree in biology and education from Wisconsin State University at Stevens Point in 1971 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1974 and 1976, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Bacteriology. His graduate work involved study of hot spring phototrophic bacteria under the direction of Thomas D. Brock. Following three years of postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology, Indiana University, where he worked on phototrophic bacteria with Howard Gest, he moved to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he is now Professor of Microbiology. He has been a coauthor of Biology of Microorganisms since the fourth edition (1984) and teaches courses in introductory microbiology and bacterial diversity. In 1988 he was selected as the outstanding teacher in the College of Science, and in 1993 its outstanding researcher. In 2001 he was selected as the university's outstanding scholar. His research has dealt almost exclusively with anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, especially those species that inhabit extreme environments. He has published 95 research papers, has coedited a major treatise on phototrophic bacteria, and is Chief Editor for North America of the journal Archives of Microbiology. His nonscientific interests include reading, hiking, tree planting, and caring for his dogs and horses. He lives beside a quiet lake about five miles from the SIU campus with his wife, Nancy, two dogs, Willie and Plum, and Springer and Feivel (horses).

John M. Martinko attended The Cleveland State University and majored in biology. As an undergraduate student he participated in a cooperative education program, gaining experience in several microbiology and immunology laboratories. He then worked for two years at Case Western Reserve University as a laboratory manager, conducting research on the structure, serology, and epidemiology of Streptococcus pyogenes. He did his graduate work at the State University of New York at Buffalo, investigating antibody specificity and antibody idiotypes for his M.A. and Ph.D. (1978) in microbiology. As a postdoctoral fellow, he worked at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York on the structure of major histocompatibility complex proteins. Since 1981, he has been in the Department of Microbiology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he is currently the Chair and Associate Professor. His research interests include the effects of growth hormone in the immune response and the development of immunodiagnostic tests for soybean brown stem rot disease. His teaching interests include undergraduate and graduate courses in immunology. He also teaches a portion of a general microbiology course, with responsibility for immunology, host defense, and infectious diseases. He lives in Carbondale with his wife, Judy, a high school science teacher, and their daughters, Martha and Helen.

Jack Parker received his bachelor's degree in biology and also received his doctoral degree in a biology program (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1973). His research project dealt with bacterial physiology and he completed his Ph.D. research while in the microbiology department at the University of Michigan. Following this, he spent four years studying bacterial genetics at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He has taught courses in bacterial genetics, general genetics, human genetics, molecular biology, and molecular genetics, and has participated in courses in introductory microbiology, medical microbiology, and virology primarily at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he is now a Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Dean of the College of Science. His research has been in the broad area of molecular genetics and gene expression and has been focused most specifically on studies of how cells control the accuracy of protein synthesis. He is the author of approximately 50 research papers. His home is on the edge of the Shawnee National Forest in deep southern Illinois.

Companion Website - Brock, 10/E
Madigan
©2003 | Benjamin Cummings | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 013066278X | ISBN-13: 9780130662781
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/brock

Companion Website - Brock, 10/E
Madigan
©2003 | Benjamin Cummings | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 013066278X | ISBN-13: 9780130662781
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/brock

Companion Website - Brock, 10/E
Madigan
©2003 | Benjamin Cummings | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 013066278X | ISBN-13: 9780130662781
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/brock

Microbiology Lab Manual, 2/E
Messley & Norrell
©2003 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper; 288 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130100293 | ISBN-13: 9780130100290
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Microbiology Laboratory Fundamentals and Applications, 2/E
Wistreich
©2003 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper; 688 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130100749 | ISBN-13: 9780130100740
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CourseCompass (5.0) Instructor Quick Start Guide
Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
©2007 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321491874 | ISBN-13: 9780321491879

CourseCompass Instructor Quick Start Guide (V4.2.1), 4/E
AWBC
©2005 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 032132126X | ISBN-13: 9780321321268

Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming
Mann & Kump
©2009 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper; 120 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0136044352 | ISBN-13: 9780136044352
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Interwrite Personal Response System
EduCue, Addison-Wesley & Benjamin Cummings
©2004 | Benjamin Cummings | Electronic Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321267354 | ISBN-13: 9780321267351

Science, Evaluating Online Resources with Research Navigator
Payton, Stavney & Priest
©2004 | Benjamin Cummings | Paper; 80 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0131136747 | ISBN-13: 9780131136748
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Companion Website - Brock, 10/E
Madigan
©2003 | Benjamin Cummings | On-line Supplement | Instock
ISBN-10: 013066278X | ISBN-13: 9780130662781
URL:  http://www.prenhall.com/brock

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