Cover; Inside Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1 Problems in Detecting Dormant (VBNC) Cells, and the Role of DNA Elements in This Response; CHAPTER 2 The Use of Antibiotic Resistance Gene Markers for Studying Bacterial Populations in Natural Environments; CHAPTER 3 Extraction and Analysis of Microbial Community Nucleic Acids from Environmental Matrices; CHAPTER 4 Detection of Bacteria by Their Intrinsic Markers; CHAPTER 5 Luminescence-Based Microbial Marker Systems and Their Application in Microbial Ecology.