Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- I. METHODOLOGY -- 1. DNA Stable Isotope Probing -- 2. RNA Stable Isotope Probing -- 3. Phospholipid Fatty Acid stable Isotope Probing Techniques in Microbial Ecology -- 4. Protein Stable Isotope Probing -- 5. Stable Isotope Probing and Metagenomics -- 6. Stable Isotope Probing Techniques Using H[Sub(2)[Sup(18)]O -- 7. Stable Isotope Probing Techniques Using [Sup(15)]N -- II. APPLICATIONS OF STABLE ISOTOPE PROBING -- 8. Stable Isotope Probing and Plants -- 9. Stable Isotope Probing Techniques and Bioremediation -- 10. Trophic Interactions in Microbial Communities and Food Webs Traced by Stable Isotope Probing of Nucleic Acids -- 11. Stable Isotope Probing and the Human Gut -- 12. DNA stable Isotope Probing and Gene Mining -- III. RELATED STABLE ISOTOPE TECHNIQUES -- 13. Raman-Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization -- 14. Nano-secondary Ions Mass spectrometry (nanosIMS) Coupled with In Situ Hybridization for Ecological Research -- 15. FISH-Microautoradiography and Isotope Arrays for Monitoring the Ecophysiology of Microbes Within Their Natural Environment -- 16. RNA-Radioisotope Probing for Studying Carbon Metabolism in Soils -- 17. A Glance Toward the Future: Where Do We Go from Here? -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.