Download or read book Modern Bacterial Taxonomy written by F. G. Priest and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1993-11-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Modern Bacterial Taxonomy has been completely revised and expanded to include detailed coverage of molecular systematics including relevant aspects of nucleic acid sequences, the construction of phylogenetic trees, typing of bacteria by restriction fragment length polymorphisms, DNA hybridization probes and the use of the polymerase chain reaction in bacterial systematics.