(Endo)symbiotic Methanogenic Archaea

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hackstein, Johannes H. P. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2018.
• Series: Microbiology Monographs, 19
• Subjects: Microbiology.; Animal physiology.; Cell biology.; Biochemistry.; Cell physiology.; Microbial ecology.; Animal Physiology.; Cell Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Physiology.; Microbial Ecology.

This updated monograph deals with methanogenic endosymbionts of anaerobic protists, in particular ciliates and termite flagellates, and with methanogens in the gastrointestinal tracts of vertebrates and arthropods. Further chapters discuss the genomic consequences of living together in symbiotic ass...