Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
11th Edition
ISBN: 9781260211887
Author: WILLEY, Sandman, Wood
Publisher: McGraw Hill
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The bacteria have a wide range of diversity when compared to eukaryotes and they tend to adapt to their inhabited environment. Hence, the bacteria are studied as a separate field of study in the microbiology. The four phyla of the bacteria that have most species are Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteria. The α-proteobacteria or Alphaproteobacteria is the most abundant bacteria when compared with all the microbes consisting of twenty families with seven orders.

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