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Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals : an integrated approach / edited by Rachael E. Antwis, Xavier A. Harrison, Michael J. Cox.

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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, New York : Cambridge University Press, part of the University of Cambridge, [2020]

Microbial ecology.

Microorganisms.

Microbial technology.

Soil microbiology.

Plants -- Microbiology.

xiii, 235 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

1. Microbiomes of soils, plants and animals: an introduction / Rachael E. Antwis, Xavier A. Harrison, Michael Cox, Sophia Carryl, Meagan Dewar, James Doonan, Ellen Fry, Jack Gilbert, Bethan Greenwood, Reid N. Harris, Zenobia Lewis, Anne Lizé, James McDonald, Valerie McKenzie, Marc Sze, Feng Zhu -- 2. Analytical approaches for microbiome research / Xavier A. Harrison and Simon J. S. Cameron -- 3. Microbiomes of soils / Reuben Margerison, Océane Nicolitch, Yaqian Zhang -- 4. Factors that shape the host microbiome / Marc Sze, James Doonan, James E. McDonald, Reid Harris and Meagan Dewar -- 5. Microbial symbioses and host nutrition / Philip Donkersley, Sam Robinson, Ella K. Deutsch and Alastair T. Gibbons -- 6. The microbiome and host behaviour / Anne Lizé and Zenobia Lewis -- 7. Host microbiomes and disease / James E. McDonald, Reid N. Harris, James Doonan, Sophia Carryl, Marc Sze, Valerie McKenzie and Jack A. Gilbert -- 8. Adapting to environmental change / Ellen L. Fry, Feng Zhu and Bethan Greenwood -- 9. Microbial biotechnology / Rachael E. Antwis, Ellen Fry, Chloë E. James and Natalie Ferry -- 10. Synthesis and future directions / Rachael E. Antwis, Xavier A. Harrison and Michael Cox.

The study of microbes and how they interact with the environment and their hosts has a fascinating history. Remarkably, we first managed to visualise microorganisms over 300 years ago. In the mid seventeenth century, Robert Hooke used a microscope to present the first scientific depiction of a fungus (Hooke, 1665), and shortly thereafter, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek used a singlelens microscope to describe the 'animalcules' that we now know to have been bacteria and protists (Van Leeuwenhoek, 1677; Lane, 2015). Two hundred years later, Angelina Fanny Hesse pioneered the use of agar media instead of a gelatin-based alternative to culture bacteria (Hitchens & Leikind, 1939) that subsequently allowed the isolation of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Koch, 1882). (Publisher)

Ecological reviews.

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