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020			_a9781555814229
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082			_a579.1758 _bGER/P
245		0	_aPhysiology and biochemistry of extremophiles/ _cedited by Charles Gerday and Nicolas Glansdorff.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aWashington: _bASM Press, _c2007.
300			_axvi, 429 p. : _bill. ; _c29 cm.
505			_aI Introduction 1. Extremophiles and the Origin of Life II Thermophiles 2. Thermal Environments and Biodiversity 3. Functional Genomics in Thermophilic Microorganisms 4. How Nucleic Acids Cope with High Temperature 5. How Thermophiles Cope with Thermolabile Metabolites 6. Temperature-Dependent Molecular Adaptation Features in Proteins 7. The Physiological Role, Biosynthesis and Mode of Action of Compatible Solutes from (Hyper)thermophiles 8. Membrane Adaptations of (Hyper)thermophiles to High Temperatures III Psychrophiles 9. Ecology and Biodiversity of Cold-Adapted Microorganisms 10. Life in Ice Formations at Very Cold Temperatures 11. Lake Vostok and Subglacial Lakes of Antarctica: Do They Host Life? 12. Psychrophiles: Membrane Adaptations 13. Cold-Adapted Enzymes 14. The Cold-Shock Response 15. Perception and Transduction of Low Temperature in Bacteria 16. An Interplay Between Metabolic and Physico-Chemical Constraints: Lessons from the Psychrophilic Prokaryote Genomes IV Halophiles 17. Biodiversity in Highly Saline Environments 18. Response to Osmotic Stress in a Haloarchaeal Genome: A Role for General Stress Proteins and Global Regulatory Mechanisms 19. Molecular Adaptation to High Salt V Acidophiles 20. Physiology and Ecology of Acidophilic Microorganisms 21. Acidophiles: Mechanisms to Tolerate Metal and Acid Toxicity 22. Genomics of Acidophiles VI Alkaliphiles 23. Environmental and Taxonomic Biodiversities of Gram-Positive Alkaliphiles 24. Bioenergetic Adaptations that Support Alkaliphily VII Piezophiles 25. Microbial Adaptation to High Pressure VIII Exobiology 26. Astrobiology and the Search for Life in the Universe IX Biotechnology 27. Extremophiles, a Unique Resource of Biocatalysts for Industrial Biotechnology XLessons from Extremophiles 28. Lessons from Extremophiles: Early Evolution and Border Conditions of Life
650			_aExtreme environments -- Microbiology.
650			_aArchaea -- physiology.
650			_aAdaptation, Physiological.
650			_aBacterial Proteins -- physiology.
650			_aBiodiversity.
650			_aEnvironmental Microbiology.
700			_aedited by Gerday, Charles
700			_aGlansdorff, Nicolas
942			_cSC79