Cold-Adapted Organisms: Ecology, Physiology, Enzymology and Molecular Biology

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Microbial life in permanently cold soils....Pages 3-15
Lake ice microbial communities in alpine and antarctic lakes....Pages 17-31
Physiology of cold-adapted microorganisms....Pages 33-55
Ecological aspects of cold-adapted plants with a special emphasis on environmental control of cold hardening and dehardening....Pages 57-77
Plant responses to low temperature: signaling pathways involved in plant acclimation....Pages 79-103
Ice nucleation and deep supercooling in plants: new insights using infrared thermography....Pages 105-118
Modeling sequential responses of plant cells to freezing and thawing....Pages 119-135
Cold adaptations in terrestrial invertebrates....Pages 137-164
Nival invertebrate animals in the East Alps: a faunistic overview....Pages 165-179
High alpine streams: cold habitats for insect larvae....Pages 181-196
Ecophysiological and morphological features of glacier-dwelling Collembola....Pages 197-218
Ecological features of antarctic fishes....Pages 219-238
Structure and function of hemoglobins from antarctic organisms: the search for correlations with adaptive evolution....Pages 239-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Cold enzymes: a hot topic....Pages 257-275
Psychrophilic enzymes: insights into cold adaptation and catalysis from the first high resolution crystal structures....Pages 277-295
Temperature adaptation in enzymes of antarctic fish....Pages 297-304
Aspartate aminotransferase from Moraxella TAC125: an unusual psychrophilic enzyme....Pages 305-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Genes and enzymes involved in arginine and pyrimidine biosynthesis in psychrophilic Vibrio strains from the deep sea....Pages 319-333
Plasmids from antarctic bacteria....Pages 335-347
Molecular responses in cold-adapted plants....Pages 349-384
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Gene expression and cold hardiness in animals....Pages 385-407
Back Matter....Pages 409-416