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Life Sciences
Joseph Seckbach
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Survey of Algae in Extreme Environments
There are some locations on Earth in which one would not expect to find any living organisms, these are environments under extreme conditions. The conditions at these locations are at the limits of life and ve...
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Tardigrades: An Example of Multicellular Extremophiles
Life has expanded its living range into almost every environmental niche imaginable on Earth. These include habitats of extreme temperature, pressure, and pH ranges, and environments with low nutrient and oxyg...
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Theoretically Possible Habitable Worlds: But Will We Get Soon Answers by Observations?
Based on the chapter presented within this volume, one of the conclusions might be, that there is no doubt, that habitable worlds exist. Even in our neighborhood, in our own solar system, it is not improbable ...
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Life on the Edge and Astrobiology: Who Is Who in the Polyextremophiles World?
Life exists in almost every ecological niche on Earth, and the majority of living organisms thrive in “normal” or “common” conditions. These are the environments that we are familiar with from our daily life. ...
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Habitable Environments by Extremophiles on Earth, the Solar System, and Elsewhere
Life on Earth is ubiquitous. Most of the organisms that we know thrive in normal environments that we consider to be ambient habitats. Extremophiles are among the microorganisms living on the edge of life unde...
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Summary, Conclusions, and Future Prospects
This COLE volume describes and discusses the interaction of microbes with sediments since the earliest stromatolites were formed on Earth, around 3,500 Ma ago. One of the most significant areas of sedimentary ...
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TheXanthiumGenus
Cockleburs (Xanthiumspp.) are genera of flowering plants in the family of Asteraceae (Compositae), native to the Americas and eastern Asia. The number of species is debatable, ranging from a few to a dozen, and t...
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Summary
The remarkable contributions in the 23 articles by the 49 authors from a dozen different countries, presented in The Diatom World, offer new data on diatoms. This volume celebrates the diatoms’ diversity, emergin...
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Symbioses and Stress: Final comments
In this book we highlight interesting cases of symbioses, in which to certain extent stress effects have been explored. We are aware that the selections do not cover all types of symbioses in which creative in...
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Overview on Cyanidian Biology
Among the members of the red algae are the unicellular Cyanidiophyceae (“cyanidia”), a group that thrives in exceptionally strong acidity (low pH) and at elevated temperatures. The three thermoacidophilic gene...
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Summary, Final Comments and Conclusions
This volume is devoted to the red algae (Rhodophyta) in the genomic age. There has been a demand, with the advance in the biotechnological methods and genomic sequences, for compiling current studies of the rh...
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Summary and Conclusions
This volume encompasses many aspects of microbial mats. Many of the chapters dealt with their description, their geographical distribution, and their environmental properties. They presented the characteristic...
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Symbioses and Stress
The “living together of unlike organisms” in symbiosis implies the confrontation of different physiological properties and ecological preferences. To be successful, organisms in association need to resolve the...
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What do we call life? A Brief Outlook on Life
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Biodiversity and Extremophiles
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The Relevance of Halophiles and other Extremophiles to Martian and Extraterrestrial Environments
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A Vista into the Diverse Microbial World: An Introduction to Microbes at the Edge of Life
Our understanding of the biodiversity in the microbial world has recently grown in many aspects. One aspect on which our knowledge has greatly increased is the intriguing field of extremophilic microorganisms ...
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Introduction to Astrobiology: Origin, Evolution, Distribution and Destiny of Life in the Universe
The only life that we know about in the universe is life on our own planet Earth. We have no idea of how representative it might be of life on other planets, although in the chapter by one of us (JCF) it is co...
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Acidophilic Microorganisms
In the last decade great interest has developed concerning microorganisms that live and thrive in extreme environments (Seckbach 1999). These life forms are mainly microbes that survive at extreme high or low ...
