Seckbach, Joseph
Polyextremophiles
Part I. General Aspects
1. Polyextremophiles and the Constraints for Terrestrial Habitability
Mark C. Capece, Evan Clark, Jamal K. Saleh, Daniel Halford, Nicole Heinl, Samuel Hoskins, Lynn J. Rothschild
2. Life on the Edge and Astrobiology: Who Is Who in the Polyextremophiles World?
Joseph Seckbach
3. The Dynamic Genomes of Acidophiles
Francisco J. López Saro, Manuel J. Gómez, Enrique González-Tortuero, Víctor Parro
Part II. Halophiles
4. 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
Aharon Oren
5. Adaptation in Haloalkaliphiles and Natronophilic Bacteria
Horia L. Banciu, Dimitry Y. Sorokin
6. A Random Biogeochemical Walk into Three Soda Lakes of the Western USA: With an Introduction to a Few of Their Microbial Denizens
Ronald S. Oremland
7. Halophilic, Acidophilic, and Haloacidophilic Prokaryotes
Hiroaki Minegishi
8. Life in Magnesium- and Calcium-Rich Hypersaline Environments: Salt Stress by Chaotropic Ions
Aharon Oren
9. Survival Strategies of Halophilic Oligotrophic and Desiccation Resistant Prokaryotes
Helga Stan-Lotter, Sergiu Fendrihan
10. Radiation Resistance in Extremophiles: Fending Off Multiple Attacks
Kimberly M. Webb, Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Part III. Thermophiles
11. Thermoalkaliphilic Microbes
Vikash Kumar, Tulasi Satyanarayana
12. Acido- and Thermophilic Microorganisms: Their Features, and the Identification of Novel Enzymes or Pathways
Yutaka Kawarabayasi
13. Microbial Diversity in Acidic High-Temperature Steam Vents
Richard L. Weiss Bizzoco, Scott T. Kelley
Part IV. Psychrophiles
14. Left Out in the Cold: Life in Cryoenvironments
Jacqueline Goordial, Guillaume Lamarche-Gagnon, Chih-Ying Lay, Lyle Whyte
15. Microbial Diversity and Enzymes in Ikaite Columns: A Cold and Alkaline Environment in Greenland
Jan K. Vester, Jeanette E. Lylloff, Mikkel A. Glaring, Peter Stougaard
16. Microbial Communities Thriving in Various Ice Ecosystems
Birgit Sattler, Barbara Post, Andreas Fritz
17. Snow Algae: Adaptation Strategies to Survive on Snow and Ice
Thomas Leya
18. Adaptation of Antarctic Freshwater Green Algae to Extreme Environments
Hanhua Hu
Part V. Pressure
19. Deep Subsurface Oil Reservoirs as Poly-extreme Habitats for Microbial Life. A Current Review
Alexander Wentzel, Anna Lewin, Francisco J. Cervantes, Svein Valla, Hans Kristian Kotlar
20. Expanding Limits for Life to a New Dimension: Microbial Growth at Hypergravity
Shigeru Deguchi, Koki Horikoshi
Part VI. Oxygen Relationships
21. Microbial Eukaryotes in Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones
William D. Orsi, Virginia P. Edgcomb
22. Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins as Model Systems for Environmental Selection of Microbial Plankton
Alexandra Stock, Sabine Filker, Michail Yakimov, Thorsten Stoeck
23. Microbial Eukaryotes in Hypersaline Anoxic Deep-Sea Basins
Virginia P. Edgcomb, William D. Orsi
24. Life at High Salt and Low Oxygen: How Do the Halobacteriaceae Cope with Low Oxygen Concentrations in Their Environment?
Aharon Oren
Part VII. Selected Organisms
25. Niches and Adaptations of Polyextremotolerant Black Fungi
Martin Grube, Lucia Muggia, Cene Gostinčar
26. Polyextremophilic Photoautotrophic Eukaryotic Algae
Werner Reisser
27. Extremophilic Magnetotactic Bacteria
Christopher T. Lefèvre, Dennis A. Bazylinski
28. Tardigrades: An Example of Multicellular Extremophiles
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Joseph Seckbach
Part VIII. Final Comments
29. Polyextremophiles: Summary and Conclusions
Julian Chela-Flores
Nyckelord: Life Sciences, Microbiology, Cell Biology, Cell Physiology, Oxidative Stress, Astrobiology
- Författare
- Seckbach, Joseph
- Oren, Aharon
- Stan-Lotter, Helga
- Utgivare
- Springer
- Utgivningsår
- 2013
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 2013
- Serie
- Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
- Sidantal
- 30 sidor
- Kategori
- Naturvetenskaper
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789400764880