Defrosting Ancient Microbes: Emerging Genomes in a Warmer World
Autor Scott Rogers, John D. Castelloen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 sep 2019
Key Selling Points:
- Explores the role of long frozen ancient microbes will have when released due to global warming
- Describes how ice preserves microbes and microbial genomes for thousands or millions of years
- Reviews work done on permafrost microbiology
- Identifies potential health hazards and environmental risks
- Examines implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367222628
ISBN-10: 0367222620
Pagini: 254
Ilustrații: 27
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
ISBN-10: 0367222620
Pagini: 254
Ilustrații: 27
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
Public țintă
General and Professional ReferenceCuprins
1. Reaching Backwards 2. Questions and Answers 3. The Importance of Water and Ice 4. The Diversity of Ice 5. Permafrost 6. What Is Life? 7. Fossils: Marking Time 8. Walking into the Past 9. Isolating and Characterizing Microbes from Ice 10. A Brief History of Research on Life in Ice 11. Ice Core Discoveries 12. Subglacial Lake Vostok 13. Discoveries from Other Ice-Covered Lakes 14. Life Is Everywhere 15. Pathogens in the Environment: Viruses 16. Pathogens, Hazards, and Dangers 17. Everything Old Is New Again, the Ultimate in Recycling 18. Astrobiology—Out of This World 19. Disappearing Ice—Global Climate Change 20. Epilogue
Notă biografică
Scott O. Rogers is a professor of molecular biology and evolution in the Department of Biological Sciences at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. He received his BS (1976) and MS (1980) degrees in Biology from the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; and a PhD (1987) in Plant Molecular Biology from the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and was then a postdoc for two years at the same university. He was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York from 1989 through 2001, before moving to BGSU, as Professor (and Departmental Chair 2001–2011). He has taught courses in general biology, botany, cell biology, molecular biology, molecular genetics, molecular techniques, molecular evolution, and bioinformatics. Research in his lab includes studies of microbes and nucleic acids preserved in ice, life in extreme environments, group I introns, ribosomal RNA genes, ribosomes, evolution of the genetic code, molecular microbial phylogenetics, microbial metagenomics/metatranscriptomics, ancient DNA, and plant development.
John D. Castello is professor emeritus of microbiology and forest pathology in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York. He received his BA (1973) in Biology from Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey; his MS (1976) in Plant Pathology from Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; and his PhD (1978) in Plant Pathology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. He has been Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, and Associate Chair at SUNY-ESF, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, Syracuse, New York. He has taught courses in microbiology, forest pathology, plant virology, forest health, and peoples, plagues, and pests.
John D. Castello is professor emeritus of microbiology and forest pathology in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York. He received his BA (1973) in Biology from Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, New Jersey; his MS (1976) in Plant Pathology from Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; and his PhD (1978) in Plant Pathology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. He has been Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, and Associate Chair at SUNY-ESF, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, Syracuse, New York. He has taught courses in microbiology, forest pathology, plant virology, forest health, and peoples, plagues, and pests.
Recenzii
"As just one example, the book teaches us that Earth’s glaciers and subglacial sediments contain more microbial cells than all of the lakes and rivers on the surface of the planet combined. The resulting impact on global climate change is and will be huge, as this dead organic matter and newly revived microbes are thawed and summarily dumped into the sea. We lack the comparative context in our brief span of human history to gauge the contours ofthis impact. Paraphrasing Rogers and Castello, our surveillance for the unknown is nonexistent.
The volume covers a wide-ranging and at times alarming topic. The human population is growing, global ice melting is increasing, and right about now is when these trends begin to collide. Although the book primarily focuses on records of the past, reconciling these two phenomena arguably has more importance to the future than anything else."
- Betül Kaçar (University of Arizona,Tucson, Arizona)
The volume covers a wide-ranging and at times alarming topic. The human population is growing, global ice melting is increasing, and right about now is when these trends begin to collide. Although the book primarily focuses on records of the past, reconciling these two phenomena arguably has more importance to the future than anything else."
- Betül Kaçar (University of Arizona,Tucson, Arizona)
Descriere
This book explores the emergence of microbes embedded in ice for thousands - even millions - of years, now being released into streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. This book explores the emergence of these microbes and the implications for terrestrial, as well as extra-terrestrial, life.