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