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By Wolfgang E. Krumbein, Ulrike Brehm, Gisela Gerdes (auth.), Wolfgang Elisabeth Krumbein, David Maxwell Paterson, Georgii Aleksandrovich Zavarzin (eds.)

ISBN-10: 9048164125

ISBN-13: 9789048164127

ISBN-10: 9401701938

ISBN-13: 9789401701938

MICROBIAL BIOFILMS: protecting NICHES IN historic AND smooth GEOMICROBIOLOGY J. W. Costerton and Paul Stoodley middle for Biofilm Engineering Montana country collage As this ebook is released in keeping with discussions of a convention that used to be held in 2001, it can be helpful to supply an replace at the latest revelations approximately biofilms, in order that this glorious exposition of the contribution of microbial biofilms to geological procedures could be put in a modem context. the significance of the contribution of microbial biofilms to worldwide approaches is barely now being favored because it is printed that every one terrestrial surfaces are teeming with microbial existence within the type of biofilm groups. those groups live to tell the tale soil debris, in rock fissures, marine and river sediments and on the very extremes of terrestrial habitats from inside of Antarctic ice to the partitions of deep sea hydrothermal vents. The contribution of those biofilm groups commonly went unrecognized since it was once the water that was once the place microbiologists hunted for lifestyles, now not the surfaces, even though, facts of the early organization of microbes with surfaces was once in reality found in the fossil list (Rasmussen, 2000; Reysenbach, and Cady, 2001). it's also revealing that biofilm formation is located in prokaryotes from the main deeply rooted branches of the phylogenetic tree in either the Archaea and micro organism kingdoms, the Korarchaeota and Aquificales respectively (Jahnke et al. 2001; Reysenbach et al. 2000).

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Pedros-Alio, C. ): Trends in Microbial Ecology, Spanish Society for Microbiology, Barcelona, 717p. Krumbein, W. , 1994. The year of the slime. P. 1-7 in: Krumbein, W. M .. , Stal, L. J. ), Biostabilisation of Sediments, BlS-Verlag, Oldenburg, 526p. Krumbein, W. , 1996. Geophysiology and Parahistology of the Interactions of Organisms with the Environment. Marine Ecology 17, 1-21. Krumbein, W. , Giele, C. , 1979a. 02 and H2S coexistence in stromatolites. A model for the origin of mineralogical lamination in stromatolites and banded iron formations: Naturwissenschaft 66, p.

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