Part 1 book “Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles” has contents: Extremophiles and the origin of life, functional genomics in thermophilic microorganisms, how thermophiles cope with thermolabile metabolites, ecology and biodiversity of cold-adapted microorganisms, and other contents. | PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF E XTR E MOP H I L E S This page intentionally left blank PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF EXT RE MOPH I L E S ED I T ED B Y CHARLES GERDAY AND NICOLAS GLANSDORFF Washington, . Copyright © 2007 ASM Press American Society for Microbiology 1752 N St., . Washington, DC 20036-2904 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Physiology and biochemistry of extremophiles / edited by C. Gerday and N. Glansdorff. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-10: 1-55581-422-0 (hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-55581-422-9 (hardcover: alk. paper) Extreme environments—Microbiology. I. Gerday, Charles. II. Glansdorff, Nicolas. III. American Society for Microbiology. [DNLM: 1. Archaea—physiology. 2. Adaptation, Physiological. 3. Bacterial Proteins—physiology. 4. Biodiversity. 5. Environmental Microbiology. QW 52 P5786 2007] 2007 —dc22 2006102166 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Address editorial correspondence to ASM Press, 1752 N St., ., Washington, DC 20036-2904, . Send orders to: ASM Press, . Box 605, Herndon, VA 20172, . Phone: 800-546-2416; 703-661-1593 Fax: 703-661-1501 E-mail: books@ Online: Cover figure: The inset illustration on the front cover is the effluent channel of Twin Butte Vista Spring (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA), a typical alkaline siliceous spring (background) with a cyanobacterial mat in the foreground (courtesy of Debra .
