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Biocommunication of Archaea

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Editors:
  1. Guenther Witzany

    1. Telos-Philosophische Praxis, Bürmoos, Salzburg, Austria

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  • First uniform description of key levels of communication in Archaea

  • Will orientate further research in Archaea

  • The first book to systematize these levels of sign(aling)

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: Keylevels of Biocommunication of Archaea

    • Guenther Witzany
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Cooccurrence of Archaea and Bacteria Among Diverse Globally Distributed Ecosystems

    • Daniel R. Colman
    Pages 17-26

  4. Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer Between Archaea and Bacteria

    • Cuiping Zhao, Yuchen Liu
    Pages 27-40

  5. Why Archaea Are Limited in Their Exploitation of Other, Living Organisms

    • Stephen T. Abedon
    Pages 41-66

  6. Archaeal Surface Structures and Their Role in Communication with the Extracellular Environment

    • Sonja-Verena Albers, Tessa E. F. Quax
    Pages 67-84

  7. Archaeal Biocommunication in Hot Springs Revealed by Metagenomics

    • María-Eugenia DeCastro, Juan-José Escuder-Rodríguez, Manuel Becerra, Esther Rodríguez-Belmonte, María-Isabel González-Siso
    Pages 85-101

  8. Sexual Communication in Archaea, the Precursor to Eukaryotic Meiosis

    • Harris Bernstein, Carol Bernstein
    Pages 103-117

  9. Quorum Sensing in Archaea: Recent Advances and Emerging Directions

    • James C. Charlesworth, Charlotte Beloe, Cara Watters, Brendan P. Burns
    Pages 119-132

  10. Biofilm Lifestyle of Thermophile and Acidophile Archaea

    • Alvaro Orell, Simone Schopf, Lennart Randau, Mario Vera
    Pages 133-146

  11. The Compressed Vocabulary of the Proteins of Archaea

    • Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Bushra F. Minhas, Fayez Aziz, Fizza Mughal, Khuram Shahzad, Guy Tal et al.
    Pages 147-174

  12. KaiC-like ATPases as Signal Transduction Hubs in Archaea

    • Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin
    Pages 175-194

  13. Archaea Were Trailblazers in Signaling Evolution: Protein Adaptation and Structural Fluidity as a Form of Intracellular Communication

    • Savannah Spradlin, Lori Cobani, Christian Brininger, Caryn Evilia
    Pages 195-211

  14. Protein Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation and Signal Processing in the Archaea

    • Peter J. Kennelly
    Pages 213-234

  15. Secondary Metabolites in Archaea and Extreme Environments

    • Shengqin Wang, Zuhong Lu
    Pages 235-239

  16. Evolutionary Interaction Between Archaeal-Eukaryal Cell Lineages and Viruses

    • Masaharu Takemura, Tomohiro Mochizuki
    Pages 241-264

  17. Inteins as Indicators of Bio-Communication

    • Shannon M. Soucy, J. Peter Gogarten
    Pages 265-275

  18. Riboswitches: Regulatory ncRNAs in Archaea

    • D. Swati
    Pages 277-303

  19. DNA Damage Repair in Archaea

    • Qunxin She, Xu Feng, Wenyuan Han
    Pages 305-318

  20. Archaeal Lipids as an Adaptation to Higher Temperatures?

    • David Penny
    Pages 319-324
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About this book

Archaea represent a third domain of life with unique properties not found in the other domains. Archaea actively compete for environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate available information and then modify their behaviour accordingly. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realize the optimum variant. These highly diverse competences show us that this is possible owing to sign(aling)-
mediated communication processes within archaeal cells (intra-organismic), between the same, related and different archaeal species (interorganismic), and between archaea and nonarchaeal organisms (transorganismic). This is crucial in coordinating growth and development, shape and dynamics. Such communication must function both on the local level and between widely separated colony parts. This allows archaea to coordinate appropriate response behaviors in a differentiated manner to their current developmental status and physiological influences. This book will orientate further investigations on how archaeal ecosphere inhabitants communicate with each other to coordinate their behavioral patterns and whats the role of viruses in this highly dynamic interactional networks.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Telos-Philosophische Praxis, Bürmoos, Salzburg, Austria

    Guenther Witzany

About the editor

Dr. Guenther Witzany, Telos- Philosophische Praxis,  Buermoos, Salzburg, Austria

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Biocommunication of Archaea

  • Editors: Guenther Witzany

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65536-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65535-2Published: 10 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88050-1Published: 18 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65536-9Published: 27 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 324

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Behavioral Sciences, Virology

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