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Science 20 June 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5883, pp. 1591 - 1592
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159301
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Learning Much from a Bug's Life

Daniel J. Rankin

Microcosm
E. coli and the New Science of Life
by Carl Zimmer
Pantheon, New York, 2008. 255 pp. $25.95, C$30. ISBN 9780375424304.
Through stories on the biology, studies, and uses of Escherichia coli bacteria, the author offers lay readers an illuminating perspective on life, evolution, bioscience, and biotechnology.
The reviewer is at the Department of Behavioural Ecology, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland. E-mail: daniel.rankin{at}esh.unibe.ch

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