Preface
1  Moving Toward Sustainability
  1.1  Water Uses and Resources
  1.2  Wastewater's Resources
  1.3  Climate Change
  1.4  Sustainability
  1.5  The Role of Environmental Biotechnology
  1.6  Organization of the Book
  1.7  References
2  Basics of Microbiology
  2.1  The Microbial Cell
  2.2  Microbial Classification
  2.3  Prokaryotes
    2.3.1  Bacterial and Archaeal Cell Structure and Function
    2.3.2  Phylogenic Lineages of Bacteria
    2.3.3  Phylogenic Lineages of Archaea
  2.4  Eukarya
    2.4.1  Fungi
    2.4.2  Algae
    2.4.3  Protozoa
    2.4.4  Other Multicellular Microorganisms
  2.5  Viruses
  2.6  Infectious Disease
  2.7  References
3  Biochemistry, Metabolism, Genetics, and Information Flow
  3.1  Biochemistry
    3.1.1  Enzymes
    3.1.2  Enzyme Reactivity
    3.1.3  Regulating Enzyme Activity
  3.2  Energy Capture
    3.2.1  Electron and Energy Carriers
    3.2.2  Energy and Electron Investments
  3.3  Metabolism
    3.3.1  Catabolism
    3.3.2  Anabolism
    3.3.3  Metabolism and Trophic Groups
  3.4  Genetics and Information Flow
    3.4.1  Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
    3.4.2  The Chromosome
    3.4.3  Plasmids
    3.4.4  DNA Replication
    3.4.5  Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)
    3.4.6  Transcription
    3.4.7  Messenger RNA (mRNA)
    3.4.8  Transfer RNA (tRNA)
    3.4.9  Translation and the Ribosomal RNA (rRNA)
    3.4.10  Translation
    3.4.11  Regulation
    3.4.12  Phylogeny
    3.4.13  The Basics of Phylogenetic Classification
  3.5  References
  3.6  Bibliography
  3.7  Problems
4  Microbial Ecology
  4.1  Selection
  4.2  Exchange of Materials
    4.2.1  Exchange of Substrates
    4.2.2  Exchange of Genetic Information
    4.2.3  Growth Factors
    4.2.4  _ Exchange of Chemical Signals
  4.3  Adaptation
  4.4  Tools to Study Microbial Ecology
    4.4.1  Traditional Enrichment Tools
    4.4.2  Molecular Targets
    4.4.3  Genomics Methods Based on the Ribosomal RNA
    4.4.4  Genomics Methods Based on the Ribosomal DNA
    4.4.5  Diversity Analysis of Genomics Results
    4.4.6  Functional Genomics Analysis
    4.4.7  Transcriptomics
    4.4.8  Proteomics
    4.4.9  Functional Prediction
  4.5  References
  4.6  Bibliography
  4.7  Problems
5  Stoichiometry and Energetics
  5.1  An Example Stoichiometric Equation
  5.2  An Empirical Formula for Microbial Cells
  5.3  Formulations for Cells Containing Storage Produrcts
  5.4  Substrate Partitioning and Cellular Yield
  5.5  Overall Reactions for Biological Growth
  5.6  Fermentation Reactions
    5.6.1  Simple Fermentation
    5.6.2  Mixed Fermentation
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6  Microbial Kinetics
7  Biofilm Kinetics
8  Microbial Products
9  Reactor Characteristics and Kinetics
10  Methanogenesis
11  Aerobic Suspended-Growth Processes
12  Aerobic Biofilm Processes
13  Nitrogen Transformation and Recovery
14 Phospnorus Kemoval and Kecovery
15 Biological Treatment of Drinking Water
A  Free Energies of Formation for Various Chemical Species, 25℃ Index
B1  Lagoons and Wetlands
B2  Microbiological Detoxification
B3  Microbial Electrochemical Cells
B4  Photosynthetic Biofactories
B5  Complex Systems