Extreme Environments

<p>The book <b>Extreme Environments:</b> <b>Unique Ecosystems – Amazing Microbes </b>is an attempt to showcase the uniqueness of extremophiles<b> </b>the largely unexplored group that has the abilities to function in hostile conditions and represent the very ancient life forms that thrived on earth billions of years ago. The book<b> </b>covers a wide range of research achievements in the field of microbiology of extreme environments right from the conventional approaches of cultivation to recently evolved high throughput sequencing technologies. The book provides a broad spectrum of information about the taxonomy physiology ecology and biotechnological applications of extremophiles from various extreme environments across the globe. </p>