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Microbial life of cave systems / edited by Annette Summers Engel.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Life in extreme environmentsPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., KG, [2015]Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110339888
  • 3110339889
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Microbial life of cave systems.DDC classification:
  • 578.75/84 23
LOC classification:
  • QH89 .M53 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 has been an increase in the number of microbiology studies from cave environments to understand cave ecology, cave geology, and even the origins of life. By emphasizing the microbial life of caves, and the ecological processes and geological consequences attributed to microbes, this book provides the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the microbial life of caves for students, professionals, and general readers.
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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.

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 has been an increase in the number of microbiology studies from cave environments to understand cave ecology, cave geology, and even the origins of life. By emphasizing the microbial life of caves, and the ecological processes and geological consequences attributed to microbes, this book provides the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the microbial life of caves for students, professionals, and general readers.

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