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This edition of Brock Biology of Microorganisms continues the tradition of impeccable scholarship, with outstanding art and photos, with accuracy. This text contains the most current coverage with the major classical and contemporary concepts that are essential to understanding microbiology; Microorganisms and mircrobiology, a journey to the microbial world, chemistry of cellular components, structure/function in bacteria and archaea, nutrition, culture and metabolism of microorganisms, microbial growth, essentials of molecular biology, archael and eukaryotic molecular biology, regulation of gene expression, overview of viruses and virology, principles of bacterial genetics, genetic engineering, microbial genomics, microbial evolution and systematics... The author, Michael T. Madigan received a bachelor’s degree in biology and education from Wisconsin State University at Stevens Point in 1971, and then his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His graduate study centered on hot spring photorophic bacteria under the direction of Thomas D. Brock. After three years of postdoctoral training in the Department of Microbiology at Indiana University, where he worked on phototrophic bacteria with Howard Gest, he moved to Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he has been a Professor of Microbiology for nearly 30 years. He has co-authored Biology of Microorganisms since its fourth edition in 1984 and teaches courses in introductory microbiology, bacterial diversity, and diagnostic and applied microbiology. He received the Carski Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching form he American Society for Microbiology, and has published over 110 research papers, has co-edited a mjor treatise on phototrophic bacteria, and has served as chief editor of hte journal Archives of Microbiology. The authorship team of this text bring years of material and research to the student who is just beginning the process as a student of microbiology.