Overview
- Editors:
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Tulasi Satyanarayana
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, Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
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Jennifer Littlechild
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, School of Chemistry and Biological Scien, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Yutaka Kawarabayasi
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, Functional Genomics of Extremophiles, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- Covers broader aspects of the diversity and role of microbes in pollution control and bioremediation
- Assesses the role of thermophilic microbes in composting and biogeochemical cycles
- Covers the recent developments in the discovery of novel microbial metabolites by metagenomic approaches
- Includes aspects such as transformation of carbon monoxide, and desulphurisation of coal and crude oil
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Genomics, Metagenomics and Biotechnology
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- Satya P. Singh, Rushit J. Shukla, Bhavtosh A. Kikani
Pages 459-479
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- Jennifer Littlechild, Halina Novak, Paul James, Christopher Sayer
Pages 481-507
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- Skander Elleuche, Garabed Antranikian
Pages 509-533
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- M. Nisha, Tulasi Satyanarayana
Pages 535-587
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- Kazuaki Yoshimune, Yutaka Kawarabayasi
Pages 589-610
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- Prince Sharma, Ravinder Kumar, Neena Capalash
Pages 611-647
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- Pullabhotla Venkata Subba Rama Narsimha Sarma, Jogi Madhu Prakash, Subha Narayan Das, Manjeet Kaur, Pallinti Purushotham, Appa Rao Podile
Pages 649-669
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- Bijender Singh, Tulasi Satyanarayana
Pages 671-687
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- Saurabh Sudha Dhiman, Ritu Mahajan, Jitender Sharma
Pages 689-710
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- Margarita Kambourova, Anna Derekova
Pages 711-730
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- Marcio José Poças-Fonseca, Robson Willian de Melo Matos, Thiago Machado Mello-de-Sousa
Pages 731-769
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- Linga Venkateswar Rao, Anuj K. Chandel, G. Chandrasekhar, A. Vimala Rodhe, J. Sridevi
Pages 771-793
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- Saroj Mishra, Vikram Sahai, Virendra Swaroop Bisaria, Ranjita Biswas, Gupteshwar Gupta, Swati Nakra
Pages 795-811
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- Vikash Kumar, Digvijay Verma, A. Archana, Tulasi Satyanarayana
Pages 813-857
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- Rajeshwari Sinha, Sunil K. Khare
Pages 859-880
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- Rani Gupta, Ekta Tiwary, Richa Sharma, Rinky Rajput, Neha Nair
Pages 881-904
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- Rohit Sharma, Vishal Thakur, Monika Sharma, Nils-KÃ¥re Birkeland
Pages 905-927
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Back Matter
Pages 929-954
About this book
The existence of life at high temperatures is quiet fascinating. At elevated temperatures, only microorganisms are capable of growth and survival. Many thermophilic microbial genera have been isolated from man-made (washing machines, factory effluents, waste streams and acid mine effluents) and natural (volcanic areas, geothermal areas, terrestrial hot springs, submarine hydrothermal vents, geothermally heated oil reserves and oil wells, sun-heated litter and soils/sediments) thermal habitats throughout the world. Both culture-dependent and culture-independent approaches have been employed for understanding the diversity of microbes in hot environments. Interest in their diversity, ecology, and physiology has increased enormously during the past few decades as indicated by the deliberations in international conferences on extremophiles and thermophiles held every alternate year and papers published in journals such as Extremophiles.
Thermophilic moulds and bacteria have been extensively studied in plant biomass bioconversion processes as sources of industrial enzymes and as gene donors. In the development of third generation biofuels such as bioethanol, thermophilic fungal and bacterial enzymes are of particular interest. The book is aimed at bringing together scattered up-to-date information on various aspects of thermophiles such as the diversity of thermophiles and viruses of thermophiles, their potential roles in pollution control and bioremediation, and composting.
Editors and Affiliations
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, Department of Microbiology, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, India
Tulasi Satyanarayana
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, School of Chemistry and Biological Scien, Exeter University, Exeter, United Kingdom
Jennifer Littlechild
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, Functional Genomics of Extremophiles, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Yutaka Kawarabayasi