Includes bibliographical references and index.

Does cultivation still matter? / Karsten Zengler -- The human intestinal microbiota and its impact on human health / Mirjana Rajili-Stojanovi, Willem M. de Vos, and Erwin G. Zoetendal -- The uncountables / William T. Sloan, Christopher Quince, and Thomas P. Curtis -- The missing fungi : new insights from culture-independent molecular studies of soil / S.K. Schmidt ... [et al.] -- The diversity of free-living protists seen and unseen, cultured and uncultured / David A. Caron and Rebecca J. Gast -- Microbial biogeography : patterns in microbial diversity across space and time / Noah Fierer -- The least common denominator : species or operational taxonomic units? / Ramon Rosselló-Mora and Arantxa López-López --

Measuring diversity / Jed A. Fuhrman -- Metagenomics as a tool to study biodiversity / Karen E. Nelson -- New cultivation strategies for terrestrial microorganisms / Peter H. Janssen -- Cultivation of marine symbiotic microorganisms / Todd A. Ciche -- Methods to study consortia and mixed cultures / Boran Kartal and Marc Strous -- Microbial cell individuality / Simon V. Avery -- Nanomechanical methods to study single cells / Ramya Desikan ... [et al.] -- Single cell genomics / Martin Keller, Christopher W. Schadt, and Anthony V. Palumbo -- How many genes does a cell need? / Hamilton O. Smith ... [et al.].

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