Life at the Limits: Organisms in Extreme Environments,9780521782128

Life at the Limits: Organisms in Extreme Environments

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ISBN13: 9780521782128
ISBN10: 0521782120
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-02-25
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

We are fascinated by the seemingly impossible places in which organisms can live. There are frogs that freeze solid, worms that dry out and bacteria that survive temperatures over 100ÝC. What seems extreme to us is, however, not extreme to these organisms. In this captivating account, the reader is taken on a tour of extreme environments, and shown the remarkable abilities of organisms to survive a range of extreme conditions, such as high and low temperatures and desiccation. This book considers how organisms survive major stresses, and what extreme organisms can tell us about the origin of life and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. These organisms have an extreme biology, which involves many aspects of their physiology, ecology and evolution.

Author Biography

David Wharton is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction: extreme life
1(26)
Be it ever so humble...
27(65)
Life without water
92(37)
The hot club
129(21)
Cold Lazarus
150(48)
More tough choices
198(21)
'It's life, Jim, but not as we know it!'
219(27)
An extreme biology
246(33)
Bibliography 279(9)
Glossary 288(13)
Index 301

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