Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds
Adaptation to Exotic Environments
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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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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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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 ...