Overview
- Provides updated information and comprehensive overview about life at the edge in extreme environments
- Presents an in-depth review on the limits of life under multiple forms of stress
- Discussion on the molecular mechanisms that enable microorganisms to thrive under extreme conditions of temperature, pH, Salinity and combinations of these factors
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE, volume 27)
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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General Aspects
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Halophiles
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Psychrophiles
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“It is a document of the terrestrial ecology of free-living microorganisms. … The utility of the volume is enhanced by its general readability; any undergraduate with a basic understanding of microbiology will benefit from reading it. This accessibility is augmented by the color plates that are used throughout the text. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (P. K. Strother, Choice, Vol. 52 (2), October, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Polyextremophiles
Book Subtitle: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress
Editors: Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren, Helga Stan-Lotter
Series Title: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6488-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6487-3Published: 22 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9240-1Published: 24 June 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6488-0Published: 13 May 2013
Series ISSN: 1566-0400
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0048
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 634
Number of Illustrations: 74 b/w illustrations, 79 illustrations in colour
Topics: Microbiology, Cell Biology, Cell Physiology, Oxidative Stress, Astrobiology