Biocommunication of Archaea

1. Introduction: Keylevels of Biocommunication of Archaea
Guenther Witzany

2. The Cooccurrence of Archaea and Bacteria Among Diverse Globally Distributed Ecosystems
Daniel R. Colman

3. Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer Between Archaea and Bacteria
Cuiping Zhao, Yuchen Liu

4. Why Archaea Are Limited in Their Exploitation of Other, Living Organisms
Stephen T. Abedon

5. Archaeal Surface Structures and Their Role in Communication with the Extracellular Environment
Sonja-Verena Albers, Tessa E. F. Quax

6. Archaeal Biocommunication in Hot Springs Revealed by Metagenomics
María-Eugenia DeCastro, Juan-José Escuder-Rodríguez, Manuel Becerra, Esther Rodríguez-Belmonte, María-Isabel González-Siso

7. Sexual Communication in Archaea, the Precursor to Eukaryotic Meiosis
Harris Bernstein, Carol Bernstein

8. Quorum Sensing in Archaea: Recent Advances and Emerging Directions
James C. Charlesworth, Charlotte Beloe, Cara Watters, Brendan P. Burns

9. Biofilm Lifestyle of Thermophile and Acidophile Archaea
Alvaro Orell, Simone Schopf, Lennart Randau, Mario Vera

10. The Compressed Vocabulary of the Proteins of Archaea
Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Bushra F. Minhas, Fayez Aziz, Fizza Mughal, Khuram Shahzad, Guy Tal, Jay E. Mittenthal, Derek Caetano-Anollés, Ibrahim Koç, Arshan Nasir, Kelsey Caetano-Anollés, Kyung Mo Kim

11. KaiC-like ATPases as Signal Transduction Hubs in Archaea
Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin

12. Archaea Were Trailblazers in Signaling Evolution: Protein Adaptation and Structural Fluidity as a Form of Intracellular Communication
Savannah Spradlin, Lori Cobani, Christian Brininger, Caryn Evilia

13. Protein Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation and Signal Processing in the Archaea
Peter J. Kennelly

14. Secondary Metabolites in Archaea and Extreme Environments
Shengqin Wang, Zuhong Lu

15. Evolutionary Interaction Between Archaeal-Eukaryal Cell Lineages and Viruses
Masaharu Takemura, Tomohiro Mochizuki

16. Inteins as Indicators of Bio-Communication
Shannon M. Soucy, J. Peter Gogarten

17. Riboswitches: Regulatory ncRNAs in Archaea
D. Swati

18. DNA Damage Repair in Archaea
Qunxin She, Xu Feng, Wenyuan Han

19. Archaeal Lipids as an Adaptation to Higher Temperatures?
David Penny

Keywords: Life Sciences, Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Behavioral Sciences, Virology