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Microbial life of cave systems /
The earth's subsurface contains abundant and active microbial biomass, living in water, occupying pore space, and colonizing mineral and rock surfaces. Caves are one type of subsurface habitat, being natural, solutionally- or collapse-enlarged openings in rock. Within the past 30 years, there h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., KG,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Life in extreme environments.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface ; Contributing authors ; 1. Bringing Microbes into Focus for Speleology: An Introduction ; 1.1 Introduction ; 1.2 Energy to Sustain Subsurface Ecosystems ; 1.3 Historical Framework of Cave Microbiology Research and Collaboration.
- 1.3.1 Research following the advent of molecular genetics techniques 1.3.2 Sulfidic cave research ; 1.3.3 Other cave research
- nonsulfidic cave systems ; 1.4 The Future of Cave Microbiology Research ; 2. Methods for Characterizing Microbial Communities in Caves and Karst: A Review.
- 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Culture-based Analyses ; 2.3 Culture-independent Analyses Based on rRNA Genes ; 2.3.1 rRNA gene (rDNA) cloning ; 2.3.2 High-throughput rRNA amplicon sequencing ; 2.3.3 Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP).
- 2.3.4 Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) 2.3.5 Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) ; 2.4 PCR-Based Functional Gene Analysis ; 2.5 Other Methods ; 2.6 Metagenomics ; 2.7 RNA-Based Analyses and Other "-Omics" Approaches ; 2.8 Case Study: Sulfidic Cave Snottites.
- 2.9 Conclusions 3. "A Grand, Gloomy, and Peculiar Place": Microbiology in the Mammoth Cave Region ; 3.1 Introduction to Mammoth Cave and the Region ; 3.1.1 The Mammoth Cave region ; 3.1.2 Mammoth Cave National Park ; 3.2 Microorganisms in Caves ; 3.2.1 Bacteria and Archaea.