En vironmental molecular microbiology: introduction -- Extraction of nucleic acids from environmental samples -- The polymerase chain Reaction as a tool to investigate microbial diversity in environmental samples -- Primer design for pcr amplification of environmental dna targets -- Direct detection of mycobacteria in the environment with sequence capture pcr -- Protocols for nucleic acid-based detection and quantitation of microorganisms in water -- Genomic polymorphisms and the diversity of oxygenic phototrophs -- Detection of protozoa in environmental water samples -- Quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay -- Microbial community proteomics -- A combined phospholipid and 16s rdna pcr-dgge analysis to study bioremediative microbial communities in-situ -- Single-strand conformation polymorphism (sscp) for microbial community analysis -- Bacterial community profiling using dgge or tgge analysis -- Differential display of prokaryotic messenger rna and application to soil microbial communities -- Fluorescent pna probes for in-situ bacterial identification -- Nucleic acid-based in-situ analyses of microbial diversity and physiology -- Technological innovations in biodetection systems for environmental molecular microbiology