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J.F. Banfield, J. Cervini-Silva and K.M. Nealson (editors). Molecular Geomicrobiology.

Chantilly, VA and Washington, D.C., USA (Mineralogical Society of America and the Geochemcical Society), 2005, xiv + 294 pp. Price $40. ISBN 093995071-5.

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Volume 59 of the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry series represents material prepared for a short course entitled ‘Molecular Geomicrobiology’ that was held at the University of California, Berkeley, on 3–4 December, 2005. This volume follows that published in 1997 (Volume 35, Geomicrobiology: Interactions between Microbes and Minerals). The title of the more recent volume reflects a new exciting stage of the research in this interdisciplinary field that came with the development of modern tools in genomics, biochemistry, analytical chemistry, physics and microscopy, and allows characterization of biogeochemical systems at a molecular level.

The authors’ concept of such new opportunities brought to Geomicrobiology in the genomics era is summarized in Chapter 1 (by Banfield et al.) of the volume. The important goal of Geomicrobiology is to understand the mechanisms of microbial–mineral transformations. With new tools, including high-resolution techniques for obtaining submicron-scale data for minerals and new genomic approaches for monitoring in situ microbial activity levels, it becomes possible to understand the physical chemistry and dynamics of natural environments, and microbial community organization and its response to changing . . . [Full Text of this Article]