March of the microbes : sighting the unseen / John L. Ingraham.

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.

x, 326 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The microbial landscape -- Acquiring metabolic energy -- Food and drink -- Living together -- Cycling nitrogen -- Cycling sulfur -- Cycling carbon -- Hostile environments -- Fungi, hostile and benign -- Viruses -- Felonious bacteria -- Shapers of the planet -- Closer to us -- Survivors.