Life in Extreme Environments

Life in Extreme Environments

Author
Ricardo Amils, Cynan Ellis-Evans, Helmut Hinghofer-Szalkay
Publication Year
2007
Publisher
Springer
Language
English
Document Type
Book
Faculty / Subject Heading
Medical Science

Investigating life processes under extreme conditions can also bring clues for understanding and predicting ecosystems' responses to global changes. Furthermore, this area of research has a wide application potential in the fields of (bio)technoloty, chemical industry, pharmaceutics, biomedicine or cosmetics.


Keywords: Biomedical and life sciences / Archaea / Biosensor / Ecology / Ecosystem / Evolution / Microbe / Physiology / Virus