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Microbes from Hell Hardcover - 2016

by Patrick Forterre; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)


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  • Title Microbes from Hell
  • Author Patrick Forterre; Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226265827 / 022626582X
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Thermophilic microorganisms, Microorganisms - Effect of heat on
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016009697
  • Dewey Decimal Code 579.317

About the author

Patrick Forterre, former head of the Microbiology Department at the Institut Pasteur, is presently professor at the Institut Pasteur and professor emeritus at the Universit Paris-Saclay, France. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.
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Hardback. New. At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists prokaryotes versus eukaryotes was upended by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms: Archaea. Initially thought to be bacteria, these single-celled microbes many of which were first found in seemingly unlivable habitats like the volcanic hot springs of Yellowstone National Park were in fact so different at molecular and genetic levels as to constitute a separate, third domain beside bacteria and eukaryotes. Their discovery sparked a conceptual revolution in our understanding of the evolution of life, and Patrick Forterre was and still is at the vanguard of this revolution. In Microbes from Hell, the world's leading expert on Archaea and hyperthermophiles, or organisms that have evolved to flourish in extreme temperatures, offers a colorful, engaging account of this taxonomic upheaval. Blending tales of his own search for thermophiles with discussions of both the physiological… Read More
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