EXTREMOPHILES as Astrobiological Models

15 Chapter 16 Figure 16.1.(a) Transmutation of species as depicted on page 36 of Darwin’s not... Figure 16.2.(a) Depicts a typical bilayer vesicle formed when (for example) dec... Figure 16.3.The depicted scale and typical results obtained by Schopf. (Credit: ... Figure 16.4.(a) Hot spring at Wai-O-Tapu park, New Zealand. (b) Example of blac... Figure 16.5.(a) Images showing examples of various endoliths; for example, the ... Figure 16.6.(a) Schematic illustration of the process of transformation. (b) Sc... Figure 16.7.(a) The phylogenetic tree of life is a theoretical construct to exp... Figure 16.8.(a) Shows that the evolutionary-time-frame is 2 units from the ance...

16 Chapter 17 Figure 17.1.The tree of life. Humans and other eukaryotes are represented by th... Figure 17.2.If all extant cellular life on Earth were known to us, the last uni... Figure 17.3.The Deep Branch Fallacy. In tree 1, A and D are equally representat...

1 Chapter 1 Table 1.1Fumarole sampling locations and physical properties. Table 1.2Analysis of steam deposits in Hawai’i and Lassen fumaroles. 1

2 Chapter 3 Table 3.1Composition of recent sapropels from selected, well-investigated brack... Table 3.2Metabolic reactions with low Gibbs free energy changes that potentiall...

3 Chapter 4 Table 4.1.Haloarchaea species diversity discovered in the Great Salt Lake north... Table 4.2.Haloarchaea superpowers; survival strategies for life at high salinit...

4 Chapter 6 Table 6.1.Comparison of main environmental data of Earth to space and celestial... Table 6.2.Comparison of some of the environmental extremes found in the Antarct... Table 6.3.Antarctic environmental conditions potentially driving bacterial adap... Table 6.4.Bacteria thought to be endemic to the Antarctic and used as astrobiol...

5 Chapter 9 Table 9.1Exposure conditions during the BIOPAN and during the EXPOSE experiment...

6 Chapter 10 Table 10.1.Single stress factors tested during EVT (environmental verification ... Table 10.2. Hcc. morrhuae and Hlm. muralis were exposed to a combination of spac... Table 10.3.Relative lesion frequency of Hcc. morrhuae 16S rRNA gene following e...

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