Van Leeuwenhoek

Rittenberg SC (1972) The obligate autotroph—the demise of a concept. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 38 457-478. 

Gerson DF, JE Zajic (1979) Comparison of surfactant production from kerosene by four species of Coryne-bacterium. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 45 81-94. 

Cain RB (1968) Anthranilic acid metabolism by microorganisms. Formation of 5-hydroxyanthranilate as an intermediate in anthranilate metabolism by Nocardia opaca. Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek 34 417-432. 

G. Muyzer and K. Smalla, Application of denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and temperature gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE) in microbial ecology. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 73 127 (1998). 

Cohen reviews a large number of attempts to estimate the world s ultimate carrying capacity, dating back to the Dutch naturalist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in 1679. As summarized by Cohen, Leeuwenhoek estimated the population density of Holland to be 120 per km2, assumed that land encompassed one-third of the Earth s total area, and extrapolated to a world population of about 13 billion. 12... 

Figure 2.3 Antonj van Leeuwenhoek. A fanciful delineation based on a famous portrait. The picture shows accurately the size and shape of the first microscopes, the manner in which they were used, and the simple laboratory apparatus of the Father of Bacteriology."...

Hensing, M.C., Rouwenhorst, R.J., Heijnen, J.J. et al. (1995) Physiological and technological aspects of large-scale heterologous-protein production with yeasts. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 67 (3), 261—279. 

Related Taxa. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology, 1998. 74(1-3) pp. 119-132. 

Blum S., Alvarez S., Haller D., Perez P. and Schiffrin E.J. (1999). Intestinal micro-flora and the interaction with immunocompetent cells. Antoine van Leeuwenhoek, 76, 199-205. 

Dunne C., Murphy L., Flynn S., O Mahony L., O Halloran S., Feeney M., Morrissey D., Thornton G., Fitzgerald G., Daly C., Kiely B., Quigley E.M.M., O Sullivan G.C., Shanahan F. and Collins J.K. et al., (1999). Probiotics, from myth to reality. Demonstration of functionality in animal models of disease and in human clinical trials . Antoine Van Leeuwenhoek, 76, 279-92. 

Nisbet D. (2002). Defined competitive exclusion cultures in the prevention of enteropathogen colonisation in poultry and swine . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 81, 481 186. 

Wagner M, Loy A, Nogueria R, Purkhold U et al (2002) Microbial community composition and function in wastewater treatment plants. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Int J Gen Mol Microbiol 81 665-680... 

J. A. M. De Bont (1976) Hydrogenase activity in nitrogen-fixing methane-oxidizing bacteria. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek., 42 255-259... 

Most of the early work on membranes was based on experiments with erythrocytes. These cells were first described by Swammerdam in 1658 with a more detailed account being given by van Leeuwenhoek (1673). The existence of a cell (plasma) membrane with properties distinct from those of protoplasm followed from the work of Hamburger (1898) who showed that when placed in an isotonic solution of sodium chloride, erythrocytes behaved as osmometers with a semipermeable membrane. Hemolysis became a convenient indication of the penetration of solutes and water into the cell. From 1900 until the early 1960s studies on cell membranes fell into two main categories increasingly sophisticated kinetic analyses of solute translocation, and rather less satisfactory examinations of membrane composition and organization. 

Leonardo da Vinci. Animals unable to survive in an atmosphere that did not support combustion. van Leeuwenhoek. Lenses used to examine bacteria. Laviosier and Laplace. Amount oxygen utilized by guinea pigs directly proportional to their energy (heat) production... 

Becking, J.H. Fixation of molecular nitrogen by an aerobic Vibrio or Spirillum. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 29, 326 (1963). 

A. L. Demain, R. R Elander, The beta-Lactam Antibiotics Past, Present, and Future , Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 1999, 75, 5-19. 

Holliger, C. and Schumacher, W. (1994) Reductive dehalogenation as a respiratory process. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, 66, 239-46. 

The conventional wisdom is that the first observation of anaerobic microbial life was made by Louis Pasteur. In fact, Pasteur rediscovered the anaerobic lifestyle. The first person actually to see anaerobic microorganisms was Antony van Leeuwenhoek, who did a remarkable experiment in 1680,... 

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