Life in Extreme Environments - Amils Pibernat, Ricardo; Ellis-Evans, Cynan; Hinghofer-Szalkay, Helmut G.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Access to glacial and subglacial environments in the Solar System by melting probe technology -- Exploration of Ellsworth Subglacial Lake: a concept paper on the development, organisation and execution of an experiment to explore, measure and sample the environment of a West Antarctic subglacial lake -- Thermostable proteins as probe for the design of advanced fluorescence biosensors -- Astrobiological significance of minerals on Mars surface environment -- Industrial barrens: extreme habitats created by non-ferrous metallurgy -- Viruses in extreme environments -- Microbial ecology of submerged marine caves and holes characterized by high levels of hydrogen sulphide -- Extremely halophilic archaea and the issue of long-term microbial survival -- Planktonic microbial assemblages and the potential effects of metazooplankton predation on the food web of lakes from the maritime Antarctica and sub-Antarctic islands -- Fungi in Antarctica -- Ecology and molecular adaptations of the halophilic black yeast Hortaea werneckii -- Ultraviolet radiation shapes seaweed communities -- Life strategy, ecophysiology and ecology of seaweeds in polar waters -- Life expansion in Sørkapp Land, Spitsbergen, under the current climate warming -- Some views on plants in polar and alpine regions -- Desiccation-tolerant plants in dry environments -- Energy dependant plant stress acclimation -- Post-capture investigations of hydrothermal vent macro-invertebrates to study adaptations to extreme environments -- Adaptations to hypoxia in hydrothermal-vent and cold-seep invertebrates -- How does the annelid Alvinella pompejana deal with an extreme hydrothermal environment? -- Pressure and life: some biological strategies -- Molecular evolution of haemoglobins of polar fishes -- Metal detoxification and homeostasis in Antarctic Notothenioids. A comparative survey on evolution, expression and functional properties of fish and mammal metallothioneins -- Predicting the impacts of climate change on the evolutionary adaptations of polar fish -- Human challenges in polar and space environments -- Hypometabolic induced state: a potential tool in biomedicine and space exploration -- A proposed classification of environmental adaptation: the example of high altitude -- The challenge of the food sufficiency through salt tolerant crops.
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