(Endo)symbiotic Methanogenic Archaea

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hackstein, Johannes H.P (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Microbiology Monographs, 19
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Biochemistry.; Cell biology.; Cell physiology.; Microbial ecology.; Microbiology.; Animal physiology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Physiology.; Cell Biology.; Biochemistry, general.; Cell Physiology.; Microbial Ecology.

Methanogens are prokaryotic microorganisms that produce methane as an end-product of a complex biochemical pathway. They are strictly anaerobic archaea and occupy a wide variety of anoxic environments. Methanogens also thrive in the cytoplasm of anaerobic unicellular eukaryotes and in the gastrointe...

Table of Contents:

• Free-Living Protozoa with Endosymbiotic Methanogens
• Anaerobic Ciliates and Their Methanogenic Endosymbionts
• Symbiotic Methanogens and Rumen Ciliates
• The Methanogenic and Eubacterial Endosymbionts of Trimyema
• Termite Gut Flagellates and Their Methanogenic and Eubacterial Symbionts
• Methanogens in the Digestive Tract of Termites
• Methanogenic Archaea in Humans and Other Vertebrates
• Methanogens in the Gastro-Intestinal Tract of Animals
• Syntrophy in Methanogenic Degradation
• Hydrogenosomes
• Evolution of Prokaryote-Animal Symbiosis from a Genomics Perspective.