Modern Topics in the Phototrophic Prokaryotes Environmental and Applied Aspects /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hallenbeck, Patrick C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Environmental sciences.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Plant genetics.; Life Sciences.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Plant Genetics & Genomics.; Environmental Science and Engineering.

This book offers authoritative contributions by world experts actively working on different aspects of phototrophic prokaryotes. Providing up-to-date information in this rapidly advancing field, it covers the range of topics that are currently the focus of research with this group of organisms. As e...

Table of Contents:

• Section I: Phylogeny, taxonomy, and diversity
• Diversity of the cyanobacteria
• Diversity of the purple sulfur and non-sulfur bacteria
• A panoply of phototrophs: a photomicrographic overview of the thermophilic chlorophototrophs of the microbial mats of alkaline siliceous hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA
• The Chlorobiaceae, Chloroflexaceae and Heliobacteriaceae
• Minireview on phototrophic Gemmatimonadetes
• Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs: Four Decades of Mystery
• Section II: Environment and ecology
• Biological soil crusts
• Cyanobacteria in terrestrial symbiotic systems
• Ecology of phototrophic microbial mats
• Section III: Photosynthetic bacteria in hydrogen producing systems
• Cyanobacteria in hydrogen producing systems
• Development of photosynthetic bacteria as model organisms for biotechnology
• Phototrophic bacteria from extreme environments.