Alien ocean: Anthropological voyages in microbial seas
Helmreich, S. (2009). Alien ocean: Anthropological voyages in microbial seas. University of California Press: Berkeley, London. ISBN 978-0-520-25062-8. xvii, 403 pp.
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VLIZ: Microbiology (General) MIC.38 [103900]
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Biology > Microbiology
Marine biologists
Marine/Coastal |
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Alien Ocean immerses readers in worlds being newly explored by marine biologists: the deep sea, the microscopic realm, and oceans beyond national boundaries. Working alongside scientists on ships at sea, in coastal research labs and at undersea volcanoes, Stefan Helmreich charts how revolutions in genomics, bioinformatics, and remote sensing have pressed marine biologists to view the sea as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in astonishingly extreme conditions, such microbes have become key figures in scientific and public debates about the origin of life, climate change, biotechnology, and even the possibility of life on other worlds. |
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