Defrosting Ancient Microbes

Name: Defrosting Ancient Microbes
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Price: 228.75 AUD
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Emerging Genomes in a Warmer World

By: Scott Rogers, John D. Castello

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Hardcover | 23 September 2019 | Edition Number 1

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230 Pages

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22.9 x 15.2 x 1.91

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Ice is melting around the world and glaciers are disappearing. Water, which has been solid for thousands and even millions of years, is being released into streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. Embedded in this new fluid water, and now being released, are ancient microbes whose effects on today's organisms and ecosystems is unknown and unpredictable. These long sleeping microbes are becoming physiologically active and may accelerate global climate change. This book explores the emergence of these microbes. The implications for terrestrial life and the life that might exist elsewhere in the universe are explored.

Key Selling Points:

Explores the role of long frozen ancient microbes will have when released due to global warming
Describes how ice preserves microbes and microbial genomes for thousands or millions of years
Reviews work done on permafrost microbiology
Identifies potential health hazards and environmental risks
Examines implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.

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"As just one example, the book teaches us that Earth's glaciers and subglacial sediments contain more microbial cells than all of the lakes and rivers on the surface of the planet combined. The resulting impact on global climate change is and will be huge, as this dead organic matter and newly revived microbes are thawed and summarily dumped into the sea. We lack the comparative context in our brief span of human history to gauge the contours ofthis impact. Paraphrasing Rogers and Castello, our surveillance for the unknown is nonexistent.

The volume covers a wide-ranging and at times alarming topic. The human population is growing, global ice melting is increasing, and right about now is when these trends begin to collide. Although the book primarily focuses on records of the past, reconciling these two phenomena arguably has more importance to the future than anything else."

- Betuel Kacar (University of Arizona,Tucson, Arizona)

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