Incredible anaerobes
Subtitle: from physiology to genomics to fuels
By: edited by Juergen Wiegel, Robert J. Maier, and Michael W.W. Adams.
Contributors: Wiegel, Juergen.; Maier, Robert J.; Adams, Michael W. W., 1954-; New York Academy of Sciences.
Series: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences -- v. 1125
Publisher: Blackwell on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781573317054
Subjects: Anaerobic bacteria -- Congresses.; Bacteria, Anaerobic -- physiology -- Congresses.; Bacteria, Anaerobic -- physiology -- Festschrift.; Bacteria, Anaerobic -- genetics -- Congresses.; Bacteria, Anaerobic -- genetics -- Festschrift.
Genres: Congresses.; Festschrift.
Notes: "This volume is the result of a conference entitled Incredible anaerobes: from physiology to genomics to fuels held on March 2-3, 2007 in Athenes, Georgia"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diversity of thermophilic anaerobes / Isaac D. Wagner and Juergen Wiegel; title: Life at extreme limits: the anaerobic halophilic alkalithermophiles / Noha M. Mesbah and Juergen Wiegel; title: Physiology, ecology, phylogeny, and genomics of microorganisms capable of syntrophic metabolism / Michael J. McInerney ... [et al.]; title: Comparative genomics of clostridia: link between the ecological niche and cell surface properties / Holger Brüggemann and Gerhard Gottschalk; title: Anaerobic metabolism of aromatic compounds / Georg Fuchs; title: Old acetogens, new light / Harold L. Drake, Anita S. Gö€ner, and Steven L. Daniel; title: Enzymology of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway of acetogenesis / Stephen W. Ragsdale; title: Discovery of a Ferredoxin:NAD+-Oxidoreductase (Rnf) in Acetobacterium woodii. A novel potential coupling site in acetogens / Volker Müller ... [et al.]; title: Methanogenesis in marine sediments / James G. Ferry and Daniel J. Lessner; title: Methane as fuel for anaerobic microorganisms / Rudolf K. Thauer and Seigo Shima; title: Metabolic, phylogenetic, and ecological diversity of the methanogenic archaea / Laura L. Grochowski and Robert H. White; title: Tungsten, the surprisingly positively acting heavy metal element for Prokaryotes / Jan R. Andreesen and Kathrin Makdessi; title: Transformation of inorganic and organic arsenic by Alkaliphilus oremlandii sp. nov. strain OhILAs / Edward Fisher ... [et al.]; title: Hydrogen and nickel metabolism in Helicobacter species / Stéphane L. Benoit and Robert J. Maier; title: Hydrogenases of the model Hyperthermophiles / Francis E. Jenney, Jr. and Michael W. W. Adams; title: Cellulases of mesophilic microorganisms: cellulosome and noncellulosome producers / Roy H. Doi; title: Plant cell wall breakdown by anaerobic microorganisms from the mammalian digestive tract / Harry J. Flint and Edward A. Bayer; title: Three microbial strategies for plant cell wall degradation / David B. Wilson; title: Bacterial cellulose hydrolysis in anaerobic environmental subsystems: Clostridium thermocellum and Clostridium stercorarium, thermophilic plant-fiber degraders / Vladimir V. Zverlov and Wolfgang H. Schwarz; title: The cellulase/hemicellulase system of the anaerobic fungus Orpinomyces PC-2 and aspects of its applied use / Lars G. Ljungdahl; title: Polysaccharide degradation and synthesis by extremely thermophilic anaerobes / Amy L. VanFossen ... [et al.]; title: A preliminary analysis of microbial and biochemical properties of high-temperature compost / Tairo Oshima and Toshiyuki Moriya; title: Microbiology to help solve our energy needs: methanogenesis from oil and the impact of nitrate on the oil-field sulfur cycle / Alexander Grigoryan and Gerrit Voordouw; title: Fermentative butanol production: bulk chemical and biofuel / Peter Dürre; title: Anaerobic respiration in engineered Escherichia coli with an internal electron acceptor to produce fuel ethanol / Joy Doran Peterson and Lonnie O. Ingram.