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Biography of a germ / Arno Karlen.

Title: Biography of a germ / Arno Karlen.
Author: Karlen, Arno
Publication: New York : Pantheon Books, 2000.

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vi, 178 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"The bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb for short) is a tiny, pale spiral, invisible to the naked eye, yet no one could invent a life so ingenious, or one so tied to so many creatures' fates. Arno Karlen takes readers on a journey through Bb's world - its ancestry and evolution, its day-to-day life, its perilous travels through ticks, mice, and deer, and, finally, its collision with humanity. Its life evokes the vast ecological web in which we and Bb are threads."--Jacket.

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Contents

Very small life -- Subject not picked at random -- Brief aside touching the erotic flea -- Why Bb in particular -- Apologia pro vita sua; in defense of germs -- In some warm little pond -- Linnaeus's tree -- Bb's twig -- Gala, or nearly everyone's cousin -- Very small indeed -- Not just a corkscrew -- Possibly poignant anatomy -- Instead of sex -- Fantastic voyage -- Equally fantastic -- Is the tick sick? -- Rash discoveries -- Magic of names -- Annals of myopia -- From bitterroot to lyme -- Far from primeval -- Machupo and other disturbances -- With apologies of sorts -- Like Darwin's finches? -- More hopeful future.

ISBN

0375401997

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^^^99057304^

OCLC

42889718

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Harvard Library