Table of Contents

I Introduction.- 1 Microbial Systematics: Background and Uses.- II Phylogeny.- 2 Universal Trees: Discovering the Archaeal and Bacterial Legacies.- 3 Phylogenetic Relationships among Fungi Inferred from Small Subunit Ribosomal RNA Gene Sequences.- III Soil, Plants and Insects.- 4 Molecular Ecology of Mycorrhizal Fungi.- 5 Systematics of Legume Nodule Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria: Agronomic and Ecological Applications.- 6 Recent Systematic Developments in Systematics and their Implications for Plant Pathogenic Bacteria.- 7 Bacteria and Insects.- 8 Fungal Pathogens and Parasites of Insects.- IV Environment and its Exploitation.- 9 Taxonomy of Extremophiles.- 10 Acidophiles in Biomining.- 11 Microbial Communities in Oil Fields.- 12 Systematics of Sphingomonas Species that Degrade Xenobiotic Pollutants.- V Food and Medicine.- 13 Lactic Acid Bacteria.- 14 A Slow Ramble in the Acid-Fast Lane: The Coming of Age of Mycobacterial Taxonomy.- VI Regulatory Aspects.- 15 Microbial Resource Centres and Ex-situ Conservation.- 16 Systematics and Legislation.- Organism Index.

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