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NEW FROM IWA PUBLISHINGNitrificationEditors: Bess B. Ward, Daniel J. Arp, and Martin G. KlotzISBN: 9781843395461May 2011• 416 pages • HardbackIWA members price: £ 66.75 / US$ 120.15 / € 90.11http://www.iwapublishing.com/template.cfm?name=isbn9781843395461Over the past 15 years, the use of modern molecular biological approaches has radicallyadvanced our understanding of nitrification processes. With chapters contributed byleading experts in the field, Nitrification fully reviews all the latest research findings onmicrobes involved in conventional aerobic nitrification, anaerobic ammonia oxidation,and related processes.The book begins with an overview of the current state of the field. Next, the fourprincipal groups of nitrifying microbes are examined in separate sections, coveringconventional aerobic bacterial ammonia oxidizers, recently discovered aerobic archaealammonia oxidizers, anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing planctomycetes, and nitrite-oxidizingbacteria. Within each section, readers can gather current information on the ecology,phylogeny, biochemistry, molecular biology, and genomics of each group of microbes.The authors also discuss the latest industrial applications of nitrification and anammoxprocesses. The final section of the book explores the ecology of nitrification in marine,freshwater, soil, and wastewater environments.-----____________________________________________________________________________________________________________16IWA <strong>Specialist</strong> <strong>Group</strong> on Microbial Ecology and Water Engineering:Newsletter July 2011