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Extremophiles Handbook

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Prologue: Definition, Categories, Distribution, Origin and Evolution, Pioneering Studies, and Emerging Fields of Extremophiles
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    Chapter 2 Introduction and History of Alkaliphiles
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    Chapter 3 Distribution and Diversity of Soda Lake Alkaliphiles
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    Chapter 4 Environmental Distribution and Taxonomic Diversity of Alkaliphiles
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    Chapter 5 Anaerobic Alkaliphiles and Alkaliphilic Poly-Extremophiles
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    Chapter 6 General Physiology of Alkaliphiles
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    Chapter 7 Adaptive Mechanisms of Extreme Alkaliphiles
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    Chapter 8 Bioenergetics: Cell Motility and Chemotaxis of Extreme Alkaliphiles
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    Chapter 9 Enzymes Isolated from Alkaliphiles
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    Chapter 10 Genomics and Evolution of Alkaliphilic Bacillus Species
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    Chapter 11 Beta-Cyclomaltodextrin Glucanotransferase of a Species of Alkaliphilic Bacillus for the Production of Beta-Cyclodextrin
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    Chapter 12 Alkaline Enzymes in Current Detergency
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    Chapter 13 Taxonomy of Halophiles
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    Chapter 14 Diversity of Halophiles
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    Chapter 15 Osmoadaptation in Methanogenic Archaea: Physiology, Genetics, and Regulation in Methanosarcina mazei Gö1
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    Chapter 16 Ecology of Halophiles
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    Chapter 17 Genetics and Genomics of Triangular Disc-Shaped Halophilic Archaeon Haloarcula japonica Strain TR-1
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    Chapter 18 Adapting to Changing Salinities: Biochemistry, Genetics, and Regulation in the Moderately Halophilic Bacterium Halobacillus halophilus
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    Chapter 19 History of Discovery of Hyperthermophiles
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    Chapter 20 Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes from Hyperthermophiles: Biochemistry and Applications
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    Chapter 21 Lignocellulose Converting Enzymes from Thermophiles
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    Chapter 22 Enzymes Involved in DNA Amplification (e.g. Polymerases) from Thermophiles: Evolution of PCR Enzymes
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    Chapter 23 Organic Compatible Solutes of Prokaryotes that Thrive in Hot Environments: The Importance of Ionic Compounds for Thermostabilization
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    Chapter 24 Metalloproteins from Hyperthermophiles
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    Chapter 25 Genetics of Thermophiles
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    Chapter 26 Genetic Tools and Manipulations of the Hyperthermophilic Heterotrophic Archaeon Thermococcus kodakarensis
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    Chapter 27 Thermophilic Protein Folding Systems
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    Chapter 28 Physiology, Metabolism, and Enzymology of Thermoacidophiles
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    Chapter 29 Distribution of Piezophiles
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    Chapter 30 High Pressure and Prokaryotes
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    Chapter 31 Piezophysiology of the Model Bacterium Escherichia coli
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    Chapter 32 High Pressures and Eukaryotes
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    Chapter 33 Contributions of Large-Scale DNA Sequencing Efforts to the Understanding of Low Temperature Piezophiles
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    Chapter 34 Cultivation Methods for Piezophiles
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    Chapter 35 Isolation Methods for High-Pressure Growth Mutant in Yeast
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    Chapter 36 Versatile Solidified Media for Growth of Extremophiles
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    Chapter 37 Ecology of Psychrophiles: Subglacial and Permafrost Environments
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    Chapter 38 Taxonomy of Psychrophiles
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    Chapter 39 Diversity of Psychrophilic Bacteria from Sea Ice - and Glacial Ice Communities
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    Chapter 40 Adaptation Mechanisms of Psychrotolerant Bacterial Pathogens
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    Chapter 41 Ecological Distribution of Microorganisms in Terrestrial, Psychrophilic Habitats
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    Chapter 42 Psychrophiles: Genetics, Genomics, Evolution
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    Chapter 43 Psychrophilic Enzymes: Cool Responses to Chilly Problems
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    Chapter 44 Microbiology of Volcanic Environments
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    Chapter 45 Discovery and Taxonomy of Organic Solvent Tolerant Microorganisms
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    Chapter 46 Diversity and Ecology of Organic Solvent Tolerant Microorganisms
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    Chapter 47 Molecular Responses to Solvent Stress: Strategies for Living in Unpalatable Substrates
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    Chapter 48 Genetics, Evolution, and Applications
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    Chapter 49 Sub-seafloor Sediments: An Extreme but Globally Significant Prokaryotic Habitat (Taxonomy, Diversity, Ecology)
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    Chapter 50 Physiology
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    Chapter 51 Biochemistry
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    Chapter 52 Genetics, Genomics, Evolution
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    Chapter 53 Deinococcus radiodurans: Revising the Molecular Basis for Radiation Effects on Cells
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    Chapter 54 Ecological Stress: Melanization as a Response in Fungi to Radiation
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    Chapter 55 Melanin and Resistance to Ionizing Radiation in Fungi
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    Chapter 56 Ecology and Cultivation of Marine Oligotrophic Bacteria
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    Chapter 57 Physiology of Marine Oligotrophic Ultramicrobacteria
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    Chapter 58 Actinobacteria of the Extremobiosphere
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    Chapter 59 Epilogue
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Title
Extremophiles Handbook
Published by
Springer Japan, January 2011
DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-53898-1
ISBNs
978-4-43-153897-4, 978-4-43-153898-1, 978-4-43-153899-8
Editors

Koki Horikoshi

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Country Count As %
Germany 3 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Mexico 3 <1%
India 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
Uruguay 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Other 9 2%
Unknown 507 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 118 22%
Student > Bachelor 86 16%
Researcher 81 15%
Student > Master 71 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 33 6%
Other 64 12%
Unknown 81 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 183 34%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 80 15%
Environmental Science 37 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 32 6%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 27 5%
Other 68 13%
Unknown 107 20%