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Microbial life of cave systems [electronic resource] / 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.
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Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

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.

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