Gunde-Cimerman, Nina
Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya
1. Introduction
Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Aharon Oren, Ana Plemenitaš
Section I.. The environments and their diversity
2. Microbial Diversity of Great Salt Lake
Bonnie K. Baxter, Carol D. Litchfield, Kevin Sowers, Jack D. Griffith, Priya Arora Dassarma, Shiladitya Dassarma
3. Microbial Communities in the Dead Sea — Past, Present and Future
Aharon Oren, Ittai Gavrieli, Jonah Gavrieli, Marco Kohen, Joseph Lati, Mordehay Aharoni
4. Microscopic Examination of Microbial Communities Along a Salinity Gradient in Saltern Evaporation Ponds: A ‘Halophilic Safari’
Aharon Oren
5. The Microbial Diversity of a Solar Saltern on San Francisco Bay
Carol D. Litchfield, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Patrick M. Gillevet
6. Diversity of Microbial Communities: The Case of Solar Salterns
Carlos Pedrós-Alió
7. Isolation of Viable Haloarchaea from Ancient Salt Deposits and Application of Fluorescent Stains for
Stefan Leuko, Andrea Legat, Sergiu Fendrihan, Heidi Wieland, Christian Radax, Claudia Gruber, Marion Pfaffenhuemer, Gerhard Weidler, Helga Stan-Lotter
8. Hydrocarbon Degradation under Hypersaline Conditions
Heiko Patzelt
9. The Relevance of Halophiles and other Extremophiles to Martian and Extraterrestrial Environments
Joseph Seckbach
10. Halophiles: A Terrestrial Analog for Life in Brines on Mars
Rocco L. Mancinelli
Section II.. Archaea
11. Comparative Genomic Survey of Information Transfer Systems in two Diverse Extremely Halophilic Archaea,
Brian R. Berquist, Jeetendra Soneja, Shiladitya Dassarma
12. Walsby’s Square Archaeon
Henk Bolhuis
13. Gene Regulation and the Initiation of Translation in Halophilic Archaea
Felicitas Pfeifer, Peter Zimmermann, Sandra Scheuch, Simone Sartorius-Neef
14. Protein Translation, Targeting and Translocation in
Jerry Eichler, Gabriela Ring, Vered Irihimovitch, Tovit Lichi, Irit Tozik, Zvia Konrad
15. Enzymes of Halophilic Archaea
Toru Mizuki, Ron Usami, Masayuki Kamo, Masaru Tanokura, Masahiro Kamekura
16. Osmoadaptation in Methanogenic Archaea: Recent Insights from a Genomic Perspective
Katharina Pflüger, Heidi Wieland, Volker Müller
Section III.. Bacteria
17.
Josefa Antón, Arantxa Peña, Maria Valens, Fernando Santos, Frank-Oliver Glöckner, Margarete Bauer, Joaquín Dopazo, Javier Herrero, Ramon Rosselló-Mora, Rudolf Amann
18. What We Can Deduce about Metabolism in the Moderate Halophile
Laszlo N. Csonka, Kathleen O’connor, Frank Larimer, Paul Richardson, Alla Lapidus, Adam D. Ewing, Bradley W. Goodner, Aharon Oren
19. K
Hans Jörg Kunte
20. The Chloride Regulon of
Volker Müller, Stephan H. Saum
21. Biosynthesis of the Compatible Solute Mannosylglycerate from Hyperthermophiles to Mesophiles
Milton S. Costa, Nuno Empadinhas
22. Genes and Enzymes of Ectoine Biosynthesis in the Haloalkaliphilic Obligate Methanotroph “Methylomicrobium Alcaliphilum 20Z”
Alexander S. Reshetnikov, Valentina N. Khmelenina, Ildar I. Mustakhimov, Yana V. Ryzhmanova, Yuri A. Trotsenko
23. Halophilic Archaea and Bacteria as a Source of Extracellular Hydrolytic Enzymes
Antonio Ventosa, Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Sara Martín, Encarnación Mellado
24. Biopolyester Production: Halophilic Microorganisms as an Attractive Source
Jorge Quillaguaman, Bo Mattiasson, Rajni Hatti-Kaul
Section IV.. Fungi
25. Relation of Halotolerance to Human-Pathogenicity in the Fungal Tree of Life: An Overview of Ecology and Evolution under Stress
Sybren Hoog, Polona Zalar, Bert Gerrits Ende, Nina Gunde-Cimerman
26. Halotolerant and Halophilic Fungi from Coastal Environments in the Arctics
Nina Gunde-Cimerman, Lorena Butinar, Silva Sonjak, Martina Turk, Viktor Uršic, Polona Zalar, Ana Plemenitaš
27. Halotolerant and Halophilic Fungi and Their Extrolite Production
Jens C. Frisvad
28. Introducing
José Ramos
29. Cellular Responses in the Halophilic Black Yeast
Ana Plemenitaš, Nina Gunde-Cimerman
30. Halotolerance and Lichen Symbioses
Martin Grube, Juliane Blaha
Section V.. Algae
31. A Century of
Aharon Oren
32. Molecular Determinants of Protein Halotolerance: Structural and Functional Studies of the Extremely Salt Tolerant Carbonic Anhydrases from
Lakshmanane Premkumar, Michal Volkovitsky, Irena Gokhman, Joel L. Sussman, Ada Zamir
Section VI.. Protozoa
33. Heterotrophic Protozoa from Hypersaline Environments
Gwen Hauer, Andrew Rogerson
34. Heterotrophic Flagellates in Hypersaline Waters
Byung C. Cho
Section VII.. Viruses
35. Haloviruses and Their Hosts
Mike L. Dyall-Smith, David G. Burns, Helen M. Camakaris, Peter H. Janssen, Brandan E. Russ, Kate Porter
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Nyckelord: SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology / General SCI008000
- Författare
- Gunde-Cimerman, Nina
- Oren, Aharon
- Plemenitaš, Ana
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2005
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Kategori
- Naturvetenskaper
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402036330