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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,836 ratings — published 2016
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 121,785 ratings — published 1994
The Demon in the Freezer (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.15 — 18,168 ratings — published 2002
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,998 ratings — published 2014
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.42 — 20,532 ratings — published 2012
Microbiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 449 ratings — published 1958
A Planet of Viruses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,100 ratings — published 2011
Brock Biology of Microorganisms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 670 ratings — published 2011
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,369 ratings — published 2008
Microbiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.72 — 76 ratings — published
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,417 ratings — published 2006
Microbiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.13 — 294 ratings — published
Microbiology: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.83 — 613 ratings — published 1986
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.27 — 946 ratings — published 1999
Prescott/Harley/Klein's Microbiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.25 — 157 ratings — published 2007
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,410 ratings — published 2020
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,042 ratings — published 2015
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,682 ratings — published 2004
Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,058 ratings — published 2000
Microbe Hunters (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,485 ratings — published 1926
Prescott's Microbiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.04 — 164 ratings — published 2007
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.72 — 12,144 ratings — published 2012
Flu: The Story Of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,668 ratings — published 1999
Good Germs, Bad Germs: Health and Survival in a Bacterial World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,377 ratings — published 2007
Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews: Microbiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 254 ratings — published 2001
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Medical Microbiology [with Student Consult Online Access] (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.02 — 393 ratings — published 1990
The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,552 ratings — published 2019
Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.03 — 526 ratings — published 2015
Microbiology: Principles and Explorations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.92 — 166 ratings — published 1992
Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 781 ratings — published 2007
The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,739 ratings — published 2006
Polio: An American Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,998 ratings — published 2005
Jawetz, Melnick, & Adelberg's Medical Microbiology (LANGE Basic Science)
by (shelved 7 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.90 — 115 ratings — published 1991
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,157,444 ratings — published 2021
General Microbiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.86 — 14 ratings — published
The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.28 — 974 ratings — published 2015
March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 142 ratings — published 2010
Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,553 ratings — published 1996
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,747 ratings — published 1994
Foundations in Microbiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.72 — 129 ratings — published 1992
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.29 — 15,296 ratings — published 2022
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,505 ratings — published 2018
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.08 — 55,970 ratings — published 2014
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,989 ratings — published 2015
Micro (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.53 — 41,312 ratings — published 2011
Food Microiology (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.10 — 220 ratings — published 1967
Microbiology: A Systems Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.66 — 111 ratings — published 2000
Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.22 — 897 ratings — published 1986
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 3.91 — 272,060 ratings — published 1969
Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as microbiology)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,755 ratings — published 2005
“Few realize that a great deal of the energy that results from photosyntheisis in the leaves is actually used by plants to produce chemicals they secrete through their roots. These secretions are known as exudates. [...]
Root exudates are in the form of carbohydrates (including sugars) and proteins. Amazingly, their presence wakes up, attracts and grows specific beneficial bacteria and fungi living in the soil that subsist on these exudates and the cellular material sloughed off as the plant's root tips grow. [...]
During different times of the growing season, populations of rhizosphere bacteria and fungi wax and wane, depending on the nutrient needs of the plant and the exudates it produces. [...]
Plants produce exudates that attract fungi and bacteria (and, ultimately, nematodes and protozoa); their survival depends on the interplay between these microbes. It is a completely natural system, the very same one that has fueled plants since they evolved. Soil life produces the nutrients needed for plant life, and plants initiate and fuel the cycle by producing exudates.”
― Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
Root exudates are in the form of carbohydrates (including sugars) and proteins. Amazingly, their presence wakes up, attracts and grows specific beneficial bacteria and fungi living in the soil that subsist on these exudates and the cellular material sloughed off as the plant's root tips grow. [...]
During different times of the growing season, populations of rhizosphere bacteria and fungi wax and wane, depending on the nutrient needs of the plant and the exudates it produces. [...]
Plants produce exudates that attract fungi and bacteria (and, ultimately, nematodes and protozoa); their survival depends on the interplay between these microbes. It is a completely natural system, the very same one that has fueled plants since they evolved. Soil life produces the nutrients needed for plant life, and plants initiate and fuel the cycle by producing exudates.”
― Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
“Microbiology is a journey through the invisible kingdoms, exploring the profound influence of the infinitesimal in shaping the visible world.”
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