Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting

This timely and unique volume offers a comprehensive synthesis of biotechnology search and discovery in the post-genomics area. Microbial Diversity and Bioprospecting brings together for the first time the diverse and complex sets of technology, data, knowledge, ideas, an objectives into an integrated and holistic approach to bioprospecting. It demonstrates the need for modern microbiologists to have an integrated perspective of science in order to address the big questions in microbiology and is invaluable reading for instructors and researchers in environmental microbiology, biotechnology, and microbial diversity as well as applied biologists. Contributors representing a wide range of academic, government and industrial organizations, disciplines, and countries and who are pre-eminent in their specialist field present state of the science material.