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This book explores the current state of knowledge about microbial evolution under extreme conditions addressing questions from the perspectives of different extreme environments, organisms, and evolutionary processes: What is known about the processes of evolution that produce adaptations to extreme...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Life in extreme environments;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
This book explores the current state of knowledge about microbial evolution under extreme conditions addressing questions from the perspectives of different extreme environments, organisms, and evolutionary processes: What is known about the processes of evolution that produce adaptations to extreme conditions? Can this knowledge be applied to other systems? What requires future research? |
| Carrier Form: |
1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | 52 farb. Abb., 5 schw.-w. Tab. |
| ISBN: | 9783110340716 |
| Index Number: | QR13 |
| CLC: | Q931 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributing authors -- 1 Extreme environments as model systems for the study of microbial evolution / 2 Microbial evolution: the view from the acidophiles / 3 Microbial Evolution in the Cryosphere / 4 Metabolic and taxonomic diversification in continental magmatic hydrothermal systems / 5 Halophilic microorganisms and adaptation to life at high salt concentrations evolutionary aspects / 6 The origin of extreme ionizing radiation resistance / 7 Current perspectives on microbial strategies for survival under extreme nutrient starvation: evolution and ecophysiology / 8 Polyextremophiles / 9 Early life / 10 Polyextremotolerance as the fungal answer to changing environments / 11 Viral evolution at the limits / 12 Evolutionary pressures and the establishment of endosymbiotic associations / 13 Rates of evolution under extreme and mesophilic conditions / Index. |