Includes bibliographical references and index.

DNA stable isotope probing / Yin Chen and J. Colin Murrell -- RNA stable isotope probing / Mike Manefield, Maria-Luisa Gutierrez-Zamora, and Andrew S. Whiteley -- Phospholipid fatty acid stable isotope probing techniques in microbial ecology / P. J. Maxfield and R. P. Evershed -- Protein stable isotope probing / Nico Jehmlich ... [et al.] -- Stable isotope probing and metagenomics / Lee J. Pinnell, Trevor C. Charles, and Josh D. Neufeld -- Stable isotope probing techniques using H218O / Egbert Schwartz -- Stable isotope probing techniques using 15N / Daniel H. Buckley -- Stable isotope probing and plants / Yahai Lu and Ralf Conrad -- Stable isotope probing techniques and bioremediation / Eugene L. Madsen -- Trophic interactions in microbial communities and food webs traced by stable isotope probing of nucleic acids / Michael W. Friedrich -- Stable isotope probing and the human gut / Koen Venema -- DNA stable isotope probing and gene mining / Helene Moussard, Thomas J. Smith, and J. Colin Murrell -- Raman-fluorescence in situ hybridization / Daniel S. Read and Andrew S. Whiteley -- Nano-secondary ions mass spectrometry (nanoSIMS) coupled with in situ hybridization for ecological research / Niculina Musat, Birgit Adam, and Marcel M. M. Kuypers -- FISH-microautoradiography and isotope arrays for monitoring the ecophysiology of microbes within their natural environment / Michael Wagner -- RNA-radioisotope probing for studying carbon metabolism in soils / Anthony G. O'Donnell, Sasha N. Jenkins, and Andrew S. Whiteley -- A glance towards the future : where do we go from here / Kenneth Nealson.