Page 45, Fig. 3.4 legend: The last two sentences in the legend should have
been deleted, since there are no scale bars in the figure.
Page 95, Table 6.6, right column: "Cromatium" should read "Chromatium."
Page 97, Fig. 6.9A and legend thereto: "Green bacteria" should read "green sulfur bacteria." In
line 4 of the figure legend, "RCI+" should read "RCI*."
Page 108, Fig. 6.16: In panel B, the arrow from 2-oxoglutarate to succinyl coenzyme A should
be absent. In panel C, the direction of the arrow between pyruvate and phosphoenolpyruvate should be reversed.
The corrected figure can be seen here.
Page 345: In lines 6-7 of the paragraph headed "What causes viral induction?," "see Chapter
13" should read "see Chapter 9." In lines 8-9 of the same paragraph, the sentence "Activated RecA protein cleaves the lambda
repressor, allowing phage genes to be expressed" should read "The lambda repressor can self-cleave, allowing phage genes to
be expressed. This cleavage is facilitated by RecA."
Page 364, Fig. 18.6 legend: The last two lines of the legend should read "the sulfate-reducing
bacteria are labeled with a green probe."
Page 365, line 11: "nitrate" should read "nitrite."
Page 381, Fig. 19.4 legend: "a leishmania (a protozoan that causes leishmaniasis)" should read
"a trypanosome (a protozoan that causes African sleeping sickness)."
