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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...

Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Joseph Seckbach in Polyextremophiles (2013)

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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. ...

Joseph Seckbach in Polyextremophiles (2013)

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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 ...

Joseph Seckbach, Vinod Chandra Tewari in STROMATOLITES: Interaction of Microbes wit… (2011)

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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...

Martin Grube, Joseph Seckbach in Symbioses and Stress (2010)

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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...

Joseph Seckbach in Red Algae in the Genomic Age (2010)

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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...

Joseph Seckbach, Alvaro Israel in Red Algae in the Genomic Age (2010)

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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...

Joseph Seckbach, Patrick G. Eriksson, Maud M. Walsh, Aharon Oren… in Microbial Mats (2010)

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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...

Martin Grube, James F. White Jr, Joseph Seckbach in Symbioses and Stress (2010)

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Summary, Final Comments and Conclusions

This volume describes and discusses the oldest, extinct microorganisms from the depth of Earth and possible microbes from the upper spheres above Earth. Even though spacecraft or space Lander vehicles have yet...

Joseph Seckbach, Julian Chela-Flores, Aharon Oren… in From Fossils to Astrobiology (2008)

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What do we call life? A Brief Outlook on Life

Joseph Seckbach, Francois Raulin, Aharon Oren, Vera Kolb… in Life as We Know It (2006)

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Biodiversity and Extremophiles

Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren, Russell L. Chapman, Debra A. Waters… in Life as We Know It (2006)