Extremophiles are organisms capable of adjust, survive or thrive in hostile habitats that were
previously thought to be adverse or lethal for life. Chile gathers a wide range of extreme …

Prokaryotic life has dominated most of the evolutionary history of our planet, evolving to
occupy virtually all available environmental niches. Extremophiles, especially those thriving …

Microorganisms are the most ubiquitous living entities on Earth. They are also the most
diverse organisms, present in about every nook and corner of the blue planet. As per …

The Earth contains a plethora of environments that, from an anthropocentric perspective,
might be classified as extreme. Relative to the typical standard conditions of temperature …

The extreme microbiomes are those microorganisms thriving under extreme conditions
where no other living being will have any chance to survive. The extreme habitats are those …

Extremophiles thrive in ice, boiling water, acid, the water core of nuclear reactors, salt
crystals, and toxic waste and in a range of other extreme habitats that were previously …

The organisms on Earth always live in a multidimensional chemical and physical niche
space. Many discoveries in the last century have tremendously expanded the range of …

Highlights•We detail how the application of metagenomics has changed research in extreme
environments.•We focus on microbial functionality under environmental extremes.•We …

A wide array of microorganisms, including many novel, phylogenetically deeply rooted taxa,
survive and thrive in extreme environments. These unique and reduced-complexity …

The Extremophiles Handbook brings together the rapidly growing and often scattered
information on microbial life in the whole range of extreme environments. This book will be a …