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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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    Microbial Mats

    Modern and Ancient Microorganisms in Stratified Systems

    Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren in Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (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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    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)

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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 ...

    Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren in Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds (2000)

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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...

    Joseph Seckbach, Frances Westall in Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds (2000)

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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 ...

    Joseph Seckbach in Journey to Diverse Microbial Worlds (2000)

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    New classification for the genus Cyanidium Geitler 1933

    The taxonomic and systematic chapters (Ott and Seckbach in this volume) gave the following binomials (and where applicable their respective formae) that have been applied at various times throughout the years ...

    Franklyn D. Ott, Joseph Seckbach in Evolutionary Pathways and Enigmatic Algae:… (1994)

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    A review on the taxonomic position of the algal genus Cyanidium Geitler 1933 and its ecological cohorts Galdieria Merola in Merola et al. 1981 and Cyanidioschyzon De Luca, Taddei and Varano 1978

    The alga presently known as Cyanidium caldarium (Tilden 1898a) Geitler 1933 has received a great deal of attention in the last 25 years both from the more classical phycologists who are concerned with phylogeneti...

    Franklyn D. Ott, Joseph Seckbach in Evolutionary Pathways and Enigmatic Algae:… (1994)

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    The natural history of Cyanidium (Geitler 1933): past and present perspectives

    Cyanidium caldarium is an acid hot spring alga which resembles Chlorella in its external morphological appearance. During reproduction, this alga divides into four endospores (while other species...

    Joseph Seckbach in Evolutionary Pathways and Enigmatic Algae:… (1994)

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    Systematic position and phylogenetic status of Cyanidium Geitler 1933

    The alga known in the literature as Cyanidium caldarium is an acido-thermophilic organism distributed ubiquitously throughout the world. This alga resembles Chlorella, is unicellular, eukaryotic and exhibits a ra...

    Joseph Seckbach, Franklyn D. Ott in Evolutionary Pathways and Enigmatic Algae:… (1994)