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Yeast Research: A Historical Overview
Contributor(s): Barnett, James A. (Author), Barnett, Linda (Author)
ISBN: 1555815162     ISBN-13: 9781555815165
Publisher: ASM Press
OUR PRICE:   $151.95  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Life Sciences - Microbiology
- Science | History
Dewey: 579.562
LCCN: 2010035128
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.9" W x 10.1" (1.80 lbs) 379 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

The comprehensive history of yeast research.

  • Traces the growing understanding of yeasts and their role in the evolution of microbiology, biochemistry, cytology, and genetics.
  • Details how findings in yeast research were used to overcome complex problems and to develop currently accepted scientific concepts and methods.
  • Emphasizes experimental evidence, by reproducing many figures from the original researchers' work as well as illustrations of the equipment they used.
  • The book is enlivened with images of many of the scientists and offers accounts of notable incidents in the lives of some of them.
  • Serves as a resource for microbiology, biochemistry, or general biology students.