The authors of this contributed volume define various inclusions and supramolecular structures in prokaryotes as discrete bodies. Research on the biosynthesis, reutilization and physiological functions of the accumulated structures is still in progress, while the interest in these inclusions is still growing. Within this second edition, the new editor organized updates to the most important contributions of the original volume. 
 
The chapters discuss the most prominent inclusion examples such as gas vesicles, inorganic inclusions (sulfur globules, magnetosomes, polyphosphatosomes), carbon-based inclusions (lipid bodies, carbonosomes, granulose, cyanophycin) as well as other organelle-like microcompartments (carboxysomes, anammoxosomes), thus making this volume a fascinating read for scientists with a keen interest in microbiology.

<p>Polyphosphate Granules and Acidocalcisomes

Bacterial Intracellular Sulphur Globules
Biosynthesis and Intracellular Organization of Magnetosomes in Magnetotactic Bacteria
Gas Vesicles of Archaea and Bacteria
The Anammoxosome Organelle: The Power Plant of Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing (anammox) Bacteria
Bacterial Microcompartments
The Cyanophycin Granule Peptide from Cyanobacteria
Storage Polysaccharides in Prokaryotes:  Glycogen, Granulose and Starch-like Granules
Wax Ester and Triacylglycerol Inclusions
Carbonosomes.</p><b></b><p></p>