Looking for environment data

[Davin C. Enigl]

Williams, Sharpe, and Holt. Bergey's Manual of Systematic
Bacteriology, (Williams and Wilkins). It has 2648 pages of data on
what you want.  It is the only text that has all the isolation history
and ever known bacterium, that I know of.  It gets updated, but for
the newest information supplement this with the ASM International
Journal of Systematic Bacteriology.  Mycology is another story.

--  Davin 

On Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:59:03 +0200, Dion Whitehead
<dionjwDIESPAM at clear.net.nz> wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I am doing research into horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Basically, I 
>need data on the habitats of all the microbes that have been sequenced so 
>far (about 69). This might sound trivial, but I have been having a lot of 
>difficulty finding good, meaningful information. I mean, there are a 
>thousand and one databases on genomes, but finding out *where* these 
>bacteria come from, that is another story.
>
>Are there any databases that list the habitats microbes?
>
>Are there any books that have this information? My searches have proven 
>surprisingly fruitless, even across multiple textbooks. I really need to 
>know all the locations they have been isolated.
>
>For example, E. coli has been isloated in the digestive tract of humans, 
>pigs, etc, and is found in low concentration in some rivers.
>
>If anybody has ANY tips, or directions, I will appreciate that a lot.
>Thanks in advance,
>Dion Whitehead
>