Journey to diverse microbial worlds : adaptation to exotic environments /
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic, c2000. |
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| Description: | xix, 410 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats ; v. 2 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4395261 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword / James T. Staley
- Preface / Joseph Seckbach
- I. General Diversity
- Ch. 1. A Vista into the Diverse Microbial Worlds: An Introduction / J. Seckbach and A. Oren
- Ch. 2. The Diversity of Fossil Microorganisms in Archaean-Age Rocks / F. Westall and M. M. Walsh
- Ch. 3. Prokaryotic Diversity / F. A. Rainey and N. Ward-Rainey
- Ch. 4. Molecular Biology and Genetic Diversity of Microorganisms / V. Torsvik, F. L. Daae and R. A. Sandaa / [et al.]
- II. Introduction to Extremophiles
- Ch. 5. Bacterial Habitats of Extremophiles / M. T. Madigan
- Ch. 6. Anaerobes from Extreme Environments / B. Ollivier, B. K. C. Patel and J.-L. Garcia
- III. Thermophiles and Acidophiles
- Ch. 7. Sulfur Metabolism Among Hyperthermophiles / K. M. Noll and S. E. Childers
- Ch. 8. Acidophilic Microorganisms / J. Seckbach
- Ch. 9. New Acidophilic Thermophiles / R. L. Weiss Bizzoco, N. Banish and M. Lu / [et al.]
- IV. Psychrophiles and Barophiles
- Ch. 10. Snow Algae: The Effects of Chemical and Physical Factors on their Life Cycles and Populations / R. W. Hoham and H. U. Ling
- Ch. 11. An Oceanographic Perspective on Microbial Life and Low Temperature / J. W. Deming and A. L. Huston
- Ch. 12. Deep-Sea Bacteria / A. A. Yayanos
- V. Alkaliphiles
- Ch. 13. Microbial Diversity and Ecology of Alkaline Environments / B. E. Jones and W. D. Grant
- Ch. 14. Anaerobic Chemotropic Alkaliphiles / G. A. Zavarin and T. N. Zhilina
- Ch. 15. Alkaliphilic Cyanobacteria / S. Boussiba, X. Wu and A. Zarka
- VI. Halophiles
- Ch. 16. Life at High Salt Concentrations: Possibilities and Limitations / A. Oren
- Ch. 17. New Discovered Halophilic Fungi in the Dead Sea (Israel) / A. S. Buchalo, E. Nevo and S. P. Wasser / [et al.]
- VII. Symbioses
- Ch. 18. Symbioses (Living One inside the Other) / B. Budel
- VIII. Bioluminescence
- Ch. 19. Luminous Bacteria / M. Haygood and S. Allen
- IX. Versatile Microbial Life on the Edge
- Ch. 20. Diversity of Methanogens / D. L. Valentine and D. R. Boone
- Ch. 21. Microbial Life on Petroleum / E. Z. Ron
- Ch. 22. Rock Dwelling Fungal Communities: Diversity of Life Styles and Colony Structure / A. A. Gorbushina and W. E. Krumbein.
