Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides comprehensive coverage of extremophiles--microbes having evolved unique adaptive mechanisms that allow them to survive and thrive in inhospitable environments of extreme temperature, pressure, or osmotic concentration.
Trade Review"...any scientist working on any aspect of extremophiles will needa copy of this book." (Chemtracts - Biochemistry & MolecularBiology, Vol. 12, Number 10)
Table of ContentsHyperthermophiles: Isolation, Classification and Properties (K.Stetter).
Psychrophiles (N. Russell & T. Hamamoto).
Empirical and Theoretical Aspects of Life at High Pressure in theDeep Sea (A. Yayanos).
Halophiles (W. Grant, et al.).
Acidophilic Microorganisms (P. Norris & D. Johnson).
Alkaliphiles (K. Horikoshi).
Alkaliphile Bioenergetics (D. Ivey, et al.).
Extremophilic, Methanogenic Archaea and Their Adaptation Mechanisms(S. Ni & D. Boone).
Reduction of Metal Cations and Oxyanions by Anaerobic andMetal-Resistant Microorganisms: Chemistry, Physiology, andPotential for the Control and Bioremediation of Toxic MetalPollution (C. White & G. Gadd).
Anaerobic Non-Methanogenic Extremophiles (L. Mermelstein & J.Zeikus).
Organic Solvent Tolerance in Microorganisms (R. Aono & A.Inoue).
Index.
