Angela E. Douglas is the Daljit S. and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Insect Physiology and Toxicology at Cornell University. Her books include The Symbiotic Habit (Princeton) and Symbiotic Interactions.
[Provides] an excellent and comprehensive account of microbiome science that will be valuable to both experts and students in the field. ---Martin Kaltenpoth, The Quarterly Review of Biology Douglas has an encyclopedic knowledge of microbial systems, their ecology, and their metabolic functions with which she explains complex physiological mechanisms and identifies important research gaps. . . . Overall, reading this book is a most satisfying intellectual feast. ---Fernando Vega, Science