Overview
- First comprehensive overview of microbial interactions with the major forms of hydrocarbons, oils, and lipids in or entering the biosphere
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (362 entries)
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Front Matter
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Hydrocarbons, Oils and Lipids: Diversity,Properties and Formation
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Formation and Location
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Transfer from the Geosphere to Biosphere
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Environmental Chemistry
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About this book
"Water is life!" All active cellular systems require water as the medium and solvent of their metabolic activities. Hydrophobic compounds and structures, which tend to exclude water, though providing inter alia excellent sources of energy and a means of biological compartmentalization, present problems of cellular handling, poor bioavailability and, in some cases, toxicity. Microbes both synthesize and exploit a vast range of hydrophobic organics, especially petroleum oil hydrocarbons and industrial pollutants, and the underlying interactions not only have major consequences for the lifestyles of the microbes involved, but also for biogeochemistry, climate change, environmental pollution, human health and a range of biotechnological applications. The aim of this handbook is to be the definitive resource of current knowledge on the diverse and multifaceted aspects of these interactions, the microbial players, and the physiological mechanisms and adaptive strategies characteristic ofthe microbial lifestyle that plays out at hydrophobic material: aqueous liquid interfaces.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology
Editors: Kenneth N. Timmis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-77584-3Published: 03 December 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-77587-4Published: 12 November 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: DLII, 4699
Topics: Microbiology, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Biochemistry, general, Microbial Ecology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics