Yeasts in Natural and Artificial Habitats

A Guide to the World of the Yeasts.- 1 Historical Introduction: Yeasts and Man in the Past.- 2 Taxonomy: The Names of the Yeasts.- 3 Ecology: Where Yeasts Live.- 4 Ecology: The Bad Guys: Pathogens of Humans and Other Animals.- 5 Yeasts as Living Objects: Yeast Nutrition.- 6 Outside and Inside: The Morphology and Cytology of the Yeast Cell.- 7 Membranes.- 8 The Yeasts: Sex and Nonsex. Life Cycles, Sporulation and Genetics.- 9 Chemical Warfare Among the Yeasts: the "Killer" Phenomenon, Genetics and Applications.- 10 Inside the Inside: Part I: Yeasts and Molecular Biology, A Recipe for Alphabet Soup. Chromosome Structure, Replication, Transcription, and Translation.- 11 Inside the Inside: Part II: The Regulators. Cell Specialization: a Regulatory Hierarchy.- 12 Yeasts and the Life of Man: Part I: Helpers and Hinderers. "Traditional" Yeast-Based Industries Spoilage Yeasts.- 13 Yeasts and the Life of Man: Part II: Genetics and Molecular Biology of Industrial Yeasts and Processes.- 14 Genetics and Molecular Biology of Methylotrophic Yeasts.- 15 Yeasts in Food Fermentations and Therapeutics.- 16 Yeasts and Energy. The Production of Fuel-Grade Ethanol.- Notes Added in Proof.- Species Index.