Product Description

A unique, encyclopaedic reference work covering the whole field of pure and applied microbiology and microbial molecular biology. This latest edition contains a vast amount of new and updated material – often to research level, and well beyond the coverage of current textbooks – making the dictionary even more valuable to lecturers, students, researchers and others in the biosciences and medicine.

• Updates and extends current textbooks
• 18,000 entries, from concise definitions to review–length articles
• Extensive cross–referencing between topics
• Thousands of references from mainstream journals and other specialist sources
• Over 5000 taxa: algae, archaeans, bacteria, fungi, protozoa and viruses; prions
• A 30–page Appendix of detailed metabolic pathways
• A classic book with a lifetime′s use!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1369133 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 976 pages

Review
"It all adds up to a valuable work of references which will be welcomed by students and researchers in a vast area of the biosciences." (Laboratory News, March 2002

"having had the opportunity to review it I can recommend it to readers of the Transactions" (Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)

"..The definitions are concise and clear...outstanding..." (SFAM News, June 2002)

"...The volume is up–to–date, accurate and comprehensive..." (The British Toxicology Society Newsletter, Spring 2002) 

"...a comprehensive tool for introducing oneself to subjects not covered by individual textbooks..." (Microbiology Today, November 2002)

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
"having had the opportunity to review it I can recommend it to readers of the Transactions"

SFAM News, June 2002
"..The definitions are concise and clear...outstanding..."

Customer Reviews

A superb, comprehensive dictionary at a reasonable price.
Singleton's Dictonary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology is wonderfully comprehensive, very current and a bargain at $62. This dictionary at 1,000-plus pages is a must-have book.