Extremophiles: Microbial Life in Extreme Environments

About this book

Each chapter is devoted to a particular class of microbe and focuses on its ecology, systematics, physiological and molecular biology. Also included is a discussion of a wide range of potentially exploitable biotechnological and industrial uses for extremophiles, including the removal and recovery of metals and degradation of toxic pollutants.

Contents

Hyperthermophiles: Isolation, Classification and Properties (K. Stetter). Psychrophiles (N. Russell & T. Hamamoto). Empirical and Theoretical Aspects of Life at High Pressure in the Deep 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 and Metal--Resistant Microorganisms: Chemistry, Physiology, and Potential for the Control and Bioremediation of Toxic Metal Pollution (C. White & G. Gadd). Anaerobic Non--Methanogenic Extremophiles (L. Mermelstein & J. Zeikus). Organic Solvent Tolerance in Microorganisms (R. Aono & A. Inoue). Index.

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