Signatur:
20-2/M 12.0180
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Content: 1. Extremophiles and the Origin of Life . Sara Islas, Ana Maria Velasco, Arturo Becerra, Luis Delaye, and Antonio Lazcano. Thermophiles. 2. Thermal Environments and Biodiversity. Elizabeth A. Burgess, Isaac D. Wagner, and Jurgen Wiegel. 3. Functional Genomics in Thermophilic Microorganisms. Frank T. Robb and Deborah T. Newby. 4. How Nucleic Acids Cope with High Temperature. Henri Grosjean and Tairo Oshima. 5. How Thermophiles Cope with Thermolabile Metabolites. Jan Massant. 6. Temperature-Dependent Molecular Adaptation Features in Proteins. Sandeep Kumar, Sunil Arya, and Ruth Nussinov. 7. The Physiological Role, Biosynthesis, and Mode of Action of Compatible Solutes from (Hyper)thermophiles. Helena Santos, Pedro Lamosa, Tiago Q. Faria, Nuno Borges, and Clelia Neves. 8. Membrane Adaptations of Hyperthermophiles to High Temperatures. Arnold J. M. Driessen and Sonja V. Albers. Psychrophiles. 9. Ecology and Biodiversity of Cold-Adapted Microorganisms. Don A. Cowan, Ana Casanueva, and William Stafford. 10. Life in Ice Formations at Very Cold Temperatures. Jody W. Deming. 11. Lake Vostok and Subglacial Lakes of Antarctica: Do They Host Life?. Guido di Prisco. 12. Psychrophiles: Membrane Adaptations. Nicholas J. Russell. 13. Cold-Adapted Enzymes. Tony Collins, Salvino D'Amico, Jean-Claude Marx, Georges Feller, and Charles Gerday. 14. The Cold-Shock Response. Masayori Inouye and Sangita Phadtare. 15. Perception and Transduction of Low Temperature in Bacteria. S. Shivaji, M. D. Kiran, and S. Chintalapati. 16. An Interplay between Metabolic and Physico-chemical Constraints: Lessons from the Psychrophilic Prokaryote Genomes. Antoine Danchin. Halophiles. 17. Biodiversity in Highly Saline Environments. Aharon Oren. 18. Response to Osmotic Stress in a Haloarchaeal Genome: a Role for General Stress Proteins and Global Regulatory Mechanisms. Guadalupe Juez, David Fenosa, Aitor Gonzaga, Elena Soria, and Francisco J. M. Mojica. 19. Molecular Adaptation to High Salt. Frederic Vellieux, Dominique Madern, Giuseppe Zaccai, and Christine Ebel. Acidophiles. 20. Physiology and Ecology of Acidophilic Microorganisms. D. Barrie Johnson. 21. Acidophiles: Mechanisms To Tolerate Metal and Acid Toxicity. Sylvia Franke and Christopher Rensing. 22. Genomics of Acidophiles. A. Angelov and W. Liebl. Alkaliphiles. 23. Environmental and Taxonomic Biodiversities of Gram-Positive Alkaliphiles. Isao Yumoto. 24. Bioenergetic Adaptations That Support Alkaliphily. Terry Ann Krulwich, David B. Hicks, Talia Swartz, and Masahiro Ito. Piezophiles. 25. Microbial Adaptation to High Pressure. Douglas H. Bartlett, Federico M. Lauro, and Emiley A. Eloe. Exobiology. 26.Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe. Giles M. Marion and Dirk Schulze-Makuch. Biotechnology. 27. Extremophiles, a Unique Resource of Biocatalysts for Industrial Biotechnology. Garabed Antranikian and Ksenia Egorova. Lessons from Extremophiles. 28. Lessons from Extremophiles: Early Evolution and Border Conditions of Life. Ying Xu and Nicolas Glansdorff
Materialart:
Monographie ausleihbar
Seiten:
XVI, 429 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:
1555814220
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978-1-555-81422-9
Standort:
Lesesaal
Zweigbibliothek:
GFZ Bibliothek
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