High-pressure microbiology [electronic resource] / edited by Chris Michiels, Douglas H. Bartlett, Abram Aertsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michiels, Chris.

Bartlett, Douglas Hoyt.

Aertsen, Abram.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water--Microbiology.

Water.

Hydrostatic pressure--Physiological effect.

Hydrostatic pressure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : ASM Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This important volume will be crucial not only to microbiologists researching high pressure but also to those interested in microbial stress responses, microbial physiology, and extreme environments.

Contents:

High hydrostatic pressure effects in the biosphere : from molecules to microbiology / Filip Meersman and Karel Heremans

Effects of hydrostatic pressure on viruses / Andréa C. Oliveira ... [et al.]

Effects of high pressure on bacterial spores / Peter Setlow

Inactivation of escherichia coli by high pressure / Bernard M. Mackey and Pilar Mañas

Cellular impact of sublethal pressures on escherichia coli / Abram Aertsen and Chris W. Michiels

Listeria monocytogenes high hydrostatic pressure resistance and survival strategies / Marjon Wells-Bennik ... [et al.]

Effects of pressure on lactic acid bacteria / Rudi F. Vogel and Matthias A. Ehrmann

Saccharomyces cerevisiae response to high hydrostatic pressure / Patricia M. B. Fernandes

Effects of growth-permissive pressures on the physiology of saccharomyces cerevisiae / Fumiyoshi Abe

Factors affecting inactivation of food-borne bacteria by high pressure / Margaret F. Patterson and Mark Linton

Introduction to deep-sea microbiology / Douglas H. Bartlett

Isolation, cultivation, and diversity of deep-sea piezophiles / Chiaki Kato, Yuichi Nogi, and Shizuka Arakawa

Culture-independent characterization of microbial diversity in selected deep-sea sediments / Chiaki Kato ... [et al.]

Deep-sea geomicrobiology / Jiasong Fang and Dennis A. Bazylinski

Deep-sea fungi / Chandralata Raghukumar and Samir Damare

Physiology and biochemistry of methanocaldococcus jannaschii at elevated pressures / Boonchai B. Boonyaratanakornkit and Douglas S. Clark

Molecular biology of the model piezophile, shewanella violacea DSS12 / Chiaki Kato ... [et al.]

Adaptations of the psychrotolerant piezophile photobacterium profundum strain SS9 / Douglas H. Bartlett, Gail Ferguson, and Giorgio Valle.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-03394-1

9786613033949

1-55581-564-2

OCLC:

609853085