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Series Statement: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology 14

Content: This book provides information about microbial mats, from early fossils to modern mats located in marine and terrestrial environments. Microbial mats - layered biofilms containing different types of cells - are most complex systems in which representatives of various groups of organisms are found together. Among them are cyanobacteria and eukaryotic phototrophs, aerobic heterotrophic and chemoautotrophic bacteria, protozoa, anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria, and other types of microorganisms.These mats are perfect models for biogeochemical processes, such as the cycles of chemical elements, in which a variety of microorganisms cooperate and interact in complex ways. They are often found under extreme conditions and their study contributes to our understanding of extremophilic life. Moreover, microbial mats are models for Precambrian stromatolites, the study of modern microbial mats may provide information on the processes that may have occurred on Earth when prokaryotic life began to spread.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Microbial Mats; Table of Contents; FOREWORD:; 1. Mats and Evolution; 2. Microbial Mats for Field Research; 3. Archaea and Bacteria; PREFACE; LIST OF AUTHORS for "Microbial mats"; WHAT ARE MICROBIAL MATS ?; 1. Introduction; 2. Phenotypic Variations of Microbial Mats and Related Sedimentary Structures; 2.1. LOCAL DOMINANCE OF CERTAIN MORPHOTYPES CONTROL MAT FABRICS; 2.2. INDUCED GROWTH PHENOMENA; 2.2.1. Growth Induced by Sedimentation Processes; 2.2.2. Trapping/Baffling, Binding; 2.2.3. Competitive Overriding: Biovarvites; 2.2.4. Mat Surface Morphologies , 2.3. Growth Responses to Physical Mat Destruction2.3.1. Healing Cracks (Case Study); 2.4. MICROBIAL "JOINT VENTURE"; 3. Summary and Conclusion; 4. References; PAPER FROM OUTER SPACE - ON "METEORPAPIER" AND MICROBIAL MATS; 1. Introduction; 2. Early Reports on "Meteorpapier" and Theories on Its Origin; 3. The Elucidation of the True Nature of the "Meteorpapier"; 4. Final Comments; 5. References2; MICROBIAL MATS ON THE EARLY EARTH: The Archean Rock Record; 1. Introduction; 2. Examples of Archean Microbial Mats; 2.1. KAAPVAAL CRATON; 2.2. PILBARA CRATON; 3. Discussion; 4. Conclusions , 5. Acknowledgments6. References; GUNFLINT CHERT MICROBIOTA REVISITED - NEITHER STROMATOLITES, NOR CYANOBACTERIA; 1. Introduction; 2. Material and Methods; 2.1. GUNFLINT; 2.2. FRENCH/SWISS JURASSIC AND WARSTEIN TERTIARY; 2.3. CULTURES; 3. Results and Discussion; 4. Conclusions; 5. References; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT OF MICROBIAL MAT-RELATED STRUCTURES IN SILICICLASTIC ROCKS; 1. Introduction; 2. Brief Overview of (Paleo)Environmental Relationships of Mat-Formed Features; 3. The Importance of Microtopography: Influence on Mat Types, Mat Growth and Mat Features in All Settings; 4. Case Studies , 4.1. MAGALIESBERG FORMATION (Ca. 2.1 Ga), KAAPVAAL CRATON, SOUTH AFRICA4.2. SONIA SANDSTONE (Ca. 0.6 Ga), RAJASTHAN, INDIA; 4.3. VINDHYAN SUPERGROUP (~1.7-0.6 Ga), BHANDARA CRATON; 5. Influence of Mat Growth on Facies Stacking Patterns and Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusions; 8. References; MICROBIALLY RELATED STRUCTURES IN SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENT RESEMBLING EDIACARAN FOSSILS: Examples from India, Ancient and Modern; 1. Introduction; 2. Geological Background of the Ancient Formations; 3. Sedimentologic Frame of the Modern Setting , 4. Microbial Mat-Related Structures Resembling Ediacaran Fossils4.1. FEATURES IN THE CHORHAT SANDSTONE; 4.2. FEATURES IN THE SIRBU SHALE; 4.3. FEATURES IN THE SONIA SANDSTONE; 4.4. MAT FEATURES FROM THE MODERN GULF OF CAMBAY; 5. Discussion; 6. Conclusions; 7. References; OSMOTROPHIC BIOFILMS: FROM MODERN TO ANCIENT; 1. Introduction; 2. Osmotrophic Biofilms in Subterranean Caves and Karsts; 3. Osmotrophs in Other Early Terrestrial Settings; 4. Osmotrophic Biodictyons in Ancient Tree Resins and Soils; 5. Osmotrophic Mats in Modern Marine Settings; 6. Osmotrophic Mats in Ediacaran Marginal Seas , 7. Osmotrophic Mats in Deeper Ediacaran Seas , What are microbial mats? , on "meteorpapier" and microbial mats , Microbial mats on the early earth : the Archean rock record , Gunflint chert microbiota revisited ; neither stromatolites, nor cyanobacteria , Paleoenvironmental context of microbial mat-related structures in siliciclastic rocks , Microbially related structures in siliciclastic sediment resembling Ediacaran fossils : examples from India, ancient and modern , Osmotrophic biofilms : from modern to ancient , Microbial mats as a source of biosignatures , Molecular investigations and experimental manipulations of microbial mats : a view to paleomicrobial ecosystems , Architecture of archaeal-dominated microbial mats from cold seeps in the Black Sea (Dnjepr Canyon, lower Crimean shelf) , Biodynamics of modern marine stromatolites , Entophysalis mats as environmental regulators , Diversity and role of cyanobacteria and aerobic heterotrophic microorganisms in carbon cycling in arid cyanobacterial mats , Ooid accreting diatom communities from the modern marine stromatolites at Highborne Cay, Bahamas , Exopolymers (extracellular polymeric substances) in diatom-dominated marine sediment biofilms , Microbial mats from wind flats of the southern Baltic Sea , Diazotrophic microbial mats , Architectures of biocomplexity : lichen-dominated soil crusts and mats , Iron and bacterial biofilm development , Mats of filamentous and unicellular cyanobacteria in hypersaline environments , Marine hypersaline Microcoleus-dominated cyanobacterial mats in the saltern at Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico : a system-level perspective , Environmental dynamics, community structure and function in a hypersaline microbial mat , Biogeochemistry of carbon cycling in hypersaline mats : linking the present to the past through biosignatures , Phototrophic biofilms from Río Tinto, an extreme acidic environment, the prokaryotic component , Fluvial bedform generation by biofilm activity in the Berrocal segment of Río Tinto : acidic biofilms and sedimentation , Cyanobacterial mats of the meltwater ponds on the McMurdo ice shelf (Antarctica) , Diversity and ecology of cyanobacterial microflora of Antarctic seepage habitats : comparison of King George Island, Shetland Islands, and James Ross Island, NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica , Microbial mats in Antarctica as models for the search of life on the Jovian moon Europa , Past, present, and future : microbial mats as models for astrobiological research , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

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Additional Edition: Buchausg. u.d.T. Microbial mats Dordrecht : Springer, 2010 ISBN 9789048137985

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Subjects: Biology

Keywords: Mikroorganismus ; Formation ; Biostratigraphie ; Extremophiler Mikroorganismus ; Astrobiologie ; Mikroorganismus ; Formation ; Biostratigraphie ; Extremophiler Mikroorganismus ; Astrobiologie ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Content: This book presents the latest results in the exploration of halophilic bacteria, archaea, fungi and viruses. Basic and molecular aspects as well as possible biotechnological applications of halophiles are highlighted by leading scientists. Topics include: the family Halomonadaceae, the hypersaline lakes of Inner Mongolia , Salinibacter ruber - from genomics to microevolution and ecology, the impact of lipidomics on the microbial world of hypersaline environments, molecular mechanisms of adaptation to high salt concentration in the black yeast Hortaea werneckii, viruses in hypersaline environments, initiation and regulation of translation in halophilic Archaea, protein transport into and across haloarchaeal cytoplasmic membranes, protein glycosylation in Haloferax volcanii, the effect of anoxic conditions and temperature on gas vesicle formation in Halobacterium salinarum, halophiles exposed to multiple stressors, cellular adjustments of Bacillus subtilis to fluctuating salinities, the nature and function of carotenoids in Halobacillus halophilus, xanthorhodopsin, enzymatic biomass degradation by halophilic microorganisms, and enzymes from halophilic Archaea.

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Additional Edition: Buchausg. u.d.T. Halophiles and hypersaline environments Berlin : Springer, 2011 ISBN 3642201970

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Subjects: Biology

Keywords: Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Hypersalinar ; Meeresökologie ; Konferenzschrift

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Series Statement: The microbiology of extreme and unusual environments

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Subjects: Biology

Keywords: Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Biogeochemie ; Mikrobiologie ; Ökologie ; Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Biogeochemie ; Kohlenstoffkreislauf ; Schwefelkreislauf ; Stickstoffkreislauf ; Hypersalinar ; Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Konferenzschrift

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Series Statement: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology 27

Content: Many Microorganisms and some macro-organisms can live under extreme conditions. For example, high and low temperature, acidic and alkaline conditions, high salt areas, high pressure, toxic compounds, high level of ionizing radiation, anoxia and absence of light, etc. Many organisms inhabit environments characterized by more than one form of stress (Polyextremophiles). Among them are those who live in hypersaline and alkaline, hot and acidic, cold/hot and high hydrostatic pressure, etc. Polyextremophiles found in desert regions have to cope with intense UV irradiation and desiccation, high as well as low temperatures, and low availability of water and nutrients. The chapters of this book provide an updated picture of our current understanding of the distribution of polyextremophilic microorganisms in nature and about the special physiological and biochemical properties that enable them to withstand multiple environmental extremes. It provides descriptions of unusual and less explored ecosystems such as Earth's cryosphere, marine hypersaline deeps, hot and cold desert environments, hot springs with elevated temperature and low or high pH. This book provides novel results of application to polyextremophiles research ranging from nanotechnology to synthetic biology to the origin of life and beyond. The topics of this volume are of importance not only for the understanding of the limits of life on Earth, but also for Astrobiology with the exploration of the possibility of life ‘as we know it’ to be present on other extraterrestrial bodies in the Universe

Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes , Table of Contents; Introduction; Foreword; Preface; Pioneering Studies of Extremophiles; Thermophiles; Alkaliphiles; Extreme Environments; Definition of Extremophiles; Distribution of Polyextremophiles; References; Editors' Biographies; List of Authors and their Addresses; Part I: GENERAL ASPECTS; Polyextremophiles and the Constraints for Terrestrial Habitability; 1. Introduction; 2. Adaptations for Life at Individual Extremes; 2.1. Temperature: Thermophiles and Psychrophiles; 2.2. pH: Acidophiles and Alkaliphiles; 2.3. Salinity: Halophiles; 2.4. Pressure: Piezophiles , 2.5. Radiation: Radioresistance2.6. Desiccation: Xerophiles; 2.7. Oxygen: Aerobes, Anaerobes, and Microaerophiles; 3. Polyextremophiles: Life at the Interface of Extremes; 3.1. Temperature and pH; 3.2. Temperature and Salinity; 3.3. Temperature and Pressure; 3.4. Temperature and Radiation; 3.5. pH and Salinity; 3.6. pH and Pressure; 3.7. pH and Radiation; 3.8. Salinity and Pressure; 3.9. Desiccation, Temperature, and Pressure; 3.10. Desiccation, pH, and Salinity; 3.11. Desiccation and Radiation; 4. Synthetic Polyextremophiles and Space Exploration; 5. References , Life on the Edge and Astrobiology: Who Is Who in the Polyextremophiles World?1. Introduction; 2. The Extremophiles; 2.1. Categories of the Extremophiles; 2.2. Habitats and Living Conditions of Extremophiles; 2.3. Publication and Distribution of Extremophiles; 3. The Polyextremophiles and Early Earth; 3.1. Biodistribution of Extremophiles; 3.2. Long-Lived Bacteria; 3.3. Eukaryotic Lower and Higher Extremophilic Organisms; 3.3.1. Shrimp Beneath Ice and Pompeii Worm; 3.3.2. Subsurface Nematodes; 3.3.3. Tardigrades; 3.3.4. Ticks Inside the Electrons Stream; 4. Astrobiology , 4.1. The Possibility for Extremophiles to Live in Extraterrestrial Places4.1.1. Mars: Our Sister Planet; 4.1.2. Europa: The Ocean Moon of Jupiter; 4.1.3. "JUICE" Mission to the Jovian Moons Next Decade; 4.1.4. Penetrator with a Drill Designed to Enter into Europa's Ice; 4.1.5. Titan; 4.1.6. Enceladus: The Satellite of Saturn (The King of the Rings); 4.1.7. Venus: Out of the Habitability Question; 4.2. The Extremophiles as Analogues for Extraterrestrial Bodies: Mars and Europa; 4.3. Blood Falls, Antarctica as a Model for Extraterrestrial Life , 4.4. Conclusion for Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life5. General Summary and Conclusions; 6. Acknowledgements; 7. References; The Dynamic Genomes of Acidophiles; 1. Introduction; 2. Genomic Variation in Natural Populations; 3. Virus and CRISPR Loci; 4. Genomic Islands and Plasmids; 5. Insertion Sequences and Transposase Activity; 6. Conclusions; 7. Acknowledgments; 8. References; Part II: HALOPHILES; Two Centuries of Microbiological Research in the Wadi Natrun, Egypt: A Model System for the Study of the Ecology, Physiology, and Taxonomy of Haloalkaliphilic Microorganisms; 1. Introduction , 2. Studies of the Microbiology of the Wadi Natrun Lakes in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries , PART 1: OPENING CHAPTERS -- Introduction -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Authors and Their Addresses -- PART 2: GENERAL ASPECTS -- Polyextremophiles and the Constraints for Terrestrial Habitability -- Life on the Edge and Astrobiology: Who Is Who in the Polyextremophiles World -- The Dynamic Genomes of Acidophiles -- PART 3: HALOPHILES -- Two Centuries of Microbiological Research in the Wadi Natrun, Egypt: A Model System for the Study of the Ecology, Physiology, and Taxonomy of Haloalkaliphilic Microorganisms -- Adaptation Mechanisms in Haloalkaliphilic and Natronophilic Bacteria -- A Random Biogeochemical Walk into Three Soda Lakes of the Western USA: With an Introduction to a Few of their Microbial Denizens -- Halophilic, Acidophilic, and Haloacidophilic Prokaryotes -- Life in Magnesium- and Calcium-Rich Hypersaline Environments: Salt Stress by Chaotropic Ions -- Survival Strategies of Halophilic Oligotrophic and Desiccation Resistant Prokaryotes -- Radiation Resistance in Extremophiles: Fending Off Multiple Attacks -- PART 4: THERMOPHILES -- Thermoalkaliphilic Microbes -- Acido- and Thermophilic Microorganisms, Their Features and Identification of Novel Enzymes or Pathways -- Microbial Diversity in Acidic High Temperature Steam Vents -- PART 5: PSYCHROPHILES -- Left Out in the Cold: Life in Cryoenvironments -- Microbial Diversity and Enzymes in Ikaite Columns; A Cold and Alkaline Environment in Greenland -- Microbial Communities Thriving in Various Ice Ecosystems -- Snow Algae. Adaptation Strategies to Survive on Snow and Ice -- Adaptation of Antarctic Freshwater Green Algae to the Extreme Environments -- PART 6: PRESSURE -- Deep Sub-Surface Oil Reservoirs as Poly-Extreme Habitats for Microbial Life. A Current Review -- Expanding Limits for Life to a New Dimension: Microbial Growth at Hypergravity -- PART 7: OXYGEN RELATIONSHIPS -- Microbial Eukaryotes in Marine Oxygen Minimum Zones -- Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins as Model Systems for Environmental Selection of Microbial Plankton -- Microbial Eukaryotes in Hypersaline Anoxic Deep Sea Basins -- Life at High Salt and Low Oxygen: How Do the Halobacteriaceae Cope with Low Oxygen Concentrations in their Environment? -- PART 8: SELECTED ORGANISMS -- Niches and Adaptations of Polyextremotolerant Black Fungi -- Polyextremophilic Photoautotrophic Eukaryotic Algae -- Extremophilic Magnetotactic Bacteria -- Multicellular Extremophiles - The Case of the Tardigrades -- PART 9: FINAL COMMENTS -- Polyextremophiles - Summary and Conclusions -- Organism Index -- Subject Index -- Author Index.

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Additional Edition: Druckausg. Polyextremophiles Dordrecht : Springer, 2013 ISBN 9789400764873

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Keywords: Extremophiler Mikroorganismus ; Extrembedingung ; Biotop ; Psychrophiler Mikroorganismus ; Extremophile Bakterien ; Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Thermophiler Organismus ; Ökologische Nische ; Extremophiler Mikroorganismus ; Eukaryoten ; Biogeochemie ; Extrembiotop ; Anpassung

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Keywords: Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Biogeochemie ; Autökologie ; Salzsee ; Mikroorganismus ; Biologie ; Ökologie ; Halophiler Mikroorganismus

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Series Statement: Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats and astrobiology 9

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Additional Edition: Online-Ausg. Adaptation to Life at High Salt Concentrations in Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005 ISBN 9781402036330

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Subjects: Biology

Keywords: Extremophiler Mikroorganismus ; Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Salzresistenz ; Anpassung ; Biochemie ; Halophiler Mikroorganismus ; Salzresistenz ; Anpassung ; Aufsatzsammlung

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In: Aquatic microbial ecology, Oldendorf, Luhe : Inter-Research, 1995, 56(2009), 2/3, Seite 263-273, 0948-3055

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