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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brown, James W., 1958– author.

Principles of microbial diversity / James W. Brown, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-55581-442-7 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-55581-851-7 (e-book) 1. Microbial diversity. 2. Microbial ecology. I. Title.

QR73.B76 2014

579—dc23

2014000523

eISBN: 978-1-55581-851-7

doi:10.1128/9781555818517

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Cover image: Dark-field image of Globigerina bulloides, an abundant and widely ranging planktonic foraminifer. The shell length is ~300 μm. (Image courtesy of Howard Spero, Department