Welcome to the microbiome : getting to know the trillions of bacteria and other microbes in, on, and around you / Rob DeSalle, Susan L. Perkins ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne.
2015
QR74.8 .D47 2015eb
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Welcome to the microbiome : getting to know the trillions of bacteria and other microbes in, on, and around you / Rob DeSalle, Susan L. Perkins ; illustrated by Patricia J. Wynne.
Author
DeSalle, Rob, author.
ISBN
9780300216325 (electronic book)
9780300208405
9780300208405
Published
New Haven, [Connecticut] : Yale University Press, 2015.
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 243 pages) : illustrations
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QR74.8 .D47 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.001576
Note
"This book has been inspired by an exhibition, The Secret World Inside You: The Microbiome, at the American Museum of Natural History, which will open in New York in early November 2015 and run until August 2016. It will then travel to other museums in the United States and abroad."--Dust jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
What is life?
What is a microbiome?
What is on and around us?
What is inside us?
What are our defenses?
What is "healthy"?
What is a microbiome?
What is on and around us?
What is inside us?
What are our defenses?
What is "healthy"?