Journey to diverse microbial worlds
Subtitle: adaptation to exotic environments
By: edited by Joseph Seckbach.
Contributors: Seckbach, J.
Series: Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats -- v. 2.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Extreme environments -- Microbiology; Adaptation (Physiology); Environmental Microbiology; Adaptation, Physiological
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A vista into the diverse microbial worlds: an introduction / J. Seckbach & A. Oren; title: The diversity of fossil microorganisms in Archaen-age rocks / F. Westall & M.M. Walsh; title: Prokaryotic diversity / F.A. Rainey & N. Ward-Rainey; title: Molecular biology and genetic diversity of microorganisms / V. Torsvik ... [et al.]; title: Bacterial habitats of extremophiles / M.T. Madigan; title: Anaerobes from extreme environments / B. Ollivier, B.K.C Patel & J.-L. Garcia; title: Sulfur metabolism among hyperthermophiles / K.M. Noll & S.E. Childers; title: Acidophilic microorganisms / J. Seckbach; title: New acidophilic thermophiles / R.L. Weiss Bizzoco ... [et al.]; title: Snow algae: the effects of chemical and physical factors on their life cycles and populations / R.W. Hoham & H.U. Ling; title: An oceanographic perspective on microbial life at low temperature / J.W. Deming & A.L. Huston; title: Deep-sea bacteria / A.A. Yayanos; title: Microbial diversity and ecology of alkaline environments / B.E. Jones & W.D. Grant; title: Anaerobic chemotropic alkaliphiles / G.A. Zavarin & T.N. Zhilina; title: Alkaliphilic cyanobacteria / S. Boussiba, X. Wu & A. Zarka; title: Life at high salt concentrations: possibilities and limitations / A. Oren; title: New discovered halophilic fungi in the Dead Sea (Israel) / A.S. Buchalo ... [et al.]; title: Symbioses (living one inside the other) / B. Büdel; title: Luminous bacteria / M. Haygood & S. Allen; title: Diversity of methanogens / D.L. Valentine & D.R. Boone; title: Microbial life on petroleum / E.Z. Ron; title: Rock dwelling fungal communities: diversity of life styles and colony structure / A.A. Gorbushina & W.E. Krumbein; title: Morphology as a parameter for diversity of bacterial population / M. Heldal; title: Surviving Escherichia coli in good shape / A. Zaritsky ... [et al.]; title: Introduction to astrobiology: origin, evolution, distribution and density of life in the universe / J. Seckbach, F. Westall & J. Chela-Flores; title: Life in the cold and dry limits: Earth, Mars and beyond / Ch.P. McKay; title: Terrestrial microbes as candidates for survival on Mars and Europe / J. Chela-Flores.