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  title info:
    title: Polyextremophiles
    sub title: life under multiple forms of stress
  name:
    name part: Oren, Aharon
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: editor
  name:
    name part: Seckbach, J. [ (Joseph)]
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: Stan-Lotter, Helga
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Springer
    date issued: c2013
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxx, 634 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Many Microorganisms and some macro-organisms can live under extreme conditions. For example, high and low temperature, acidic and alkaline conditions, high salt areas, high pressure, toxic compounds, high level of ionizing radiation, anoxia and absence of light, etc. Many organisms inhabit environments characterized by more than one form of stress (Polyextremophiles). Among them are those who live in hypersaline and alkaline, hot and acidic, cold/hot and high hydrostatic pressure, etc. Polyextremophiles found in desert regions have to cope with intense UV irradiation and desiccation, high as well as low temperatures, and low availability of water and nutrients. The chapters of this book provide an updated picture of our current understanding of the distribution of polyextremophilic microorganisms in nature and about the special physiological and biochemical properties that enable them to withstand multiple environmental extremes. It provides descriptions of unusual and less explored ecosystems such as Earth's cryosphere, marine hypersaline deeps, hot and cold desert environments, hot springs with elevated temperature and low or high pH. This book provides novel results of application to polyextremophiles research ranging from nanotechnology to synthetic biology to the origin of life and beyond. The topics of this volume are of importance not only for the understanding of the limits of life on Earth, but also for Astrobiology with the exploration of the possibility of life ?as we know it? to be present on other extraterrestrial bodies in the Universe
  table of contents: 1. General aspects -- 2. Halophiles -- 3. Thermophiles -- 4. Psychrophiles -- 5. Pressure -- 6. Oxygen relationships -- 7. Selected organisms -- 8. Final comments
  note: edited by Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren and Helga Stan-Lotter
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  subject:
    topic: Extreme environments
    topic: Microbiology
  classification: QR100.9 .P65 2013
  identifier: 940076488X (e-book)
  identifier: 9789400764873 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9789400764880 (e-book)
  record info:
    record creation date: 130529
    record change date: 20211116093000.0
    record identifier: 0000083327