Advanced Techniques for Studying Microorganisms in Extreme Environments

✍ Scribed by Étienne Yergeau (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 182
• Series: Life in Extreme Environments; 8
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book will highlight advanced techniques that were recently used for studying microorganisms in extreme environments. Recent technological leaps in the study of microorganisms in the environment now make it possible to comprehensively study microbes in the environment. Extreme environments could benefit from the application of these techniques, but many challenges such as low biomass, low activity and slow growth has prevented their wide adoption.

This book will review recent application of state-of-the-art techniques in extreme environments, helping researcher and graduate students get a better knowledge of the tools available.

• Up-to-date on advanced state-of-the-art techniques in extreme environments
• Full color illustrations

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Contributing authors
1. Advanced microbial cultivation methodologies and their applicability in cryoenvironments
2. Analysis of lithic microbial communities
3. Use of microbes from extreme environments for biotechnological applications
4. Merging microbial and plant profiling to understand the impact of human-generated extreme environments on natural and agricultural systems
5. Metagenomics of extreme environments: methods and applications
6. Practical overview of bioinformatics data mining in environmental genomics
7. Techniques and approaches to quantify microbial diversity in extreme environments
Index