Extremophile - Mikroorganismen in ausgefallenen Lebensrumen
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Klaus Hausmann, 1995
ISBN10: n/a ISBN13: 9783527300686
Some like it hot - others cold or dark or saline or ... The extreme living conditions that have been mastered by micro-organisms and the ecological niches which they have made habitable are often difficult to comprehend from our anthropocentric point of view. In this book well-known specialists describe the survival strategies of such different unicellular organisms as ice algae and protozoan, microbes in deep, marine thermal springs, halophilic micro-algae, oil-degrading bacteria or flagellates in the termite gut. The contributions are up-to-date, scientifically based but also written to be understood by the interested layman. The whole is made very vivid by means of numerous figures, graphs and tables. A compilation that is unique in the German-speaking world, which will fascinate anyone interested in unusual forms of life and the limits of biological existence.
