Psychrophiles: from Biodiversity to Biotechnology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Margesin, Rosa (Editor), Schinner, Franz (Editor), Marx, Jean-Claude (Editor), Gerday, Charles (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biotechnology.; Microbiology.; Biochemistry.; Microbial ecology.; Microbial genetics.; Microbial genomics.; Astrophysics.; Life Sciences.; Biochemistry, general.; Microbial Genetics and Genomics.; Microbial Ecology.; Applied Microbiology.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

Most scientists in the middle of the twentieth century would probably not have believed that life was possible at extreme values of environmental factors, such as pH values close to 0 (e. g. sulfurous environments) or to 14 (e. g. soda lakes), sali- ties of 6 M NaCl (e. g. Dead Sea), hydrostatic pre...