Overview
- Reveals eukaryotic strategies in anoxic environments
- Includes cutting-edge research, data and hypotheses never before published
- Offers also fundamental introductions, overviews and an exhaustive collection of literature for advanced studies
Part of the book series: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology (COLE, volume 21)
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ANOXIA defines the lack of free molecular oxygen in an environment. In the presence of organic matter, anaerobic prokaryotes produce compounds such as free radicals, hydrogen sulfide, or methane that are typically toxic to aerobes. The concomitance of suppressed respiration and presence of toxic substances suggests these habitats are inhospitable to Eukaryota. Ecologists sometimes term such environments 'Death Zones'. This book presents, however, a collection of remarkable adaptations to anoxia, observed in Eukaryotes such as protists, animals, plants and fungi. Case studies provide evidence for controlled beneficial use of anoxia by, for example, modification of free radicals, use of alternative electron donors for anaerobic metabolic pathways, and employment of anaerobic symbionts. The complex, interwoven existence of oxic and anoxic conditions in space and time is also highlighted as is the idea that eukaryotic inhabitation of anoxic habitats was established early in Earth history.
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Table of contents (32 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Introduction
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Front Matter
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Functional Biochemistry
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FUNCTIONAL BIOCHEMISTRY
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Managing Anoxia
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MANAGING ANOXIA
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Foraminifera
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Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anoxia
Book Subtitle: Evidence for Eukaryote Survival and Paleontological Strategies
Editors: Alexander V. Altenbach, Joan M. Bernhard, Joseph Seckbach
Series Title: Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1896-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1895-1Published: 20 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3705-1Published: 30 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1896-8Published: 20 October 2011
Series ISSN: 1566-0400
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0048
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 648
Topics: Ecology, Eukaryotic Microbiology, Biogeosciences, Paleontology, Geoecology/Natural Processes