Polyextremophiles : Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Colección: | Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology,
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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.