Polyextremophiles : Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Seckbach, Joseph. (Editor ), Oren, Aharon. (Editor ), Stan-Lotter, Helga. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology, 27
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART 1: OPENING CHAPTERS
  • Introduction
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of Authors and Their Addresses
  • PART 2: GENERAL ASPECTS
  • Polyextremophiles and the Constraints for Terrestrial Habitability
  • Life on the Edge and Astrobiology: Who Is Who in the Polyextremophiles World
  • The Dynamic Genomes of Acidophiles
  • PART 3: HALOPHILES
  • Two Centuries of Microbiological Research in the Wadi Natrun, Egypt: A Model System for the Study of the Ecology, Physiology, and Taxonomy of Haloalkaliphilic Microorganisms
  • Adaptation in Haloalkaliphiles and Natronophilic Bacteria
  • A Random Biogeochemical Walk into Three Soda Lakes of the Western USA: With an Introduction to a Few of their Microbial Denizens
  • Halophilic, Acidophilic, and Haloacidophilic Prokaryotes
  • Life in Magnesium- and Calcium-Rich Hypersaline Environments: Salt Stress by Chaotropic Ions
  • Survival Strategies of Halophilic Oligotrophic and Desiccation Resistant Prokaryotes
  • Radiation Resistance in Extremophiles: Fending Off Multiple Attacks
  • PART 4: THERMOPHILES
  • Thermoalkaliphilic Microbes
  • Acido- and Thermophilic Microorganisms, Their Features and Identification of Novel Enzymes or Pathways
  • Microbial Diversity in Acidic High Temperature Steam Vents
  • PART 5: PSYCHROPHILES
  • Left Out in the Cold: Life in Cryoenvironments
  • Microbial Diversity and Enzymes in Ikaite Columns; A Cold and Alkaline Environment in Greenland
  • Microbial Communities Thriving in Various Ice Ecosystems
  • Snow Algae. Adaptation Strategies to Survive on Snow and Ice
  • Adaptation of Antarctic Freshwater Green Algae to the Extreme Environments
  • PART 6: PRESSURE
  • Deep Sub-Surface Oil Reservoirs as Poly-Extreme Habitats for Microbial Life. A Current Review
  • Expanding Limits for Life to a New Dimension: Microbial Growth at Hypergravity
  • PART 7: OXYGEN RELATIONSHIPS
  • Microbial Eukaryotes in Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones
  • Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins as Model Systems for Environmental Selection of Microbial Plankton
  • Microbial Eukaryotes in Hypersaline Anoxic Deep Sea Basins
  • Life at High Salt and Low Oxygen: How Do the Halobacteriaceae Cope with Low Oxygen Concentrations in their Environment?
  • PART 8: SELECTED ORGANISMS
  • Niches and Adaptations of Polyextremotolerant Black Fungi
  • Polyextremophilic Photoautotrophic Eukaryotic Algae
  • Extremophilic Magnetotactic Bacteria
  • Multicellular Extremophiles – The Case of the Tardigrades
  • PART 9: FINAL COMMENTS
  • Polyextremophiles - Summary and Conclusions
  • Organism Index
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index.