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

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., KG, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
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Series Life in extreme environments ; v. 3
Life in extreme environments.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Biospeleology.
Biospeleology.
Cave ecology.
Cave ecology.
Microbiology.
Microbiology.
Cave animals.
Cave animals.
Cave plants.
Cave plants.
Underground ecology.
Underground ecology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Engel, Annette Summers, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Microbial life of cave systems. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015] 9783110334999 (DLC) 2015015080 (OCoLC)908332899
ISBN 9783110339888 (electronic book)
3110339889 (electronic book)
9783110334999
3110334992
9783110389524
3110389525