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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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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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Life on the Edge and Beyond
Recent observations have shown that microbes of all three domains of life (Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya) are ubiquitously distributed all over the globe. Microorganisms are spread throughout many ecosystems:...
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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 ...
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The Cyanidiophyceae: Hot Spring Acidophilic Algae
The Cyanidiaceae are exceptional organisms among the microalgal communities, these cells thrive in extreme ecological conditions (see Seckbach, 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1997). They are considered very primitive eu...
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The Versatility of Microorganisms
Living organisms are ubiquitous; they are observed in almost every ecological niche, from the air to various habitats on land and deep in the oceans. The abiding presence of microorganisms has also a temporal ...
