Advances in Extreme Environment Microbes
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Diversity and Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2027 | Viewed by 89
Special Issue Editor
Interests: extreme environment; astrobiology; Mars; habitability; anaerobes; Martian life
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ecology in extreme environments has become one of the fastest-growing and most relevant research fields in recent years. The active products isolated from extremophile microorganisms with biotechnological applications and the scientific implications of understanding life along with its limits in these environments are the two factors that increase the relevance of this field.
Microorganisms that inhabit environments characterized by extreme temperature (thermophiles, psychrophiles), low pH (acidophiles), high pH (alkaliphiles), high pressure (barophiles), low water content (xerophiles) or high salt content (halophiles) or chaotropic environments not only provide us with crucial information to understand life and its limits, as well as active compounds that can be used in biotechnological applications with industrial implications but also allow us to study the potential for habitability in other planetary environments outside our planet.
This Special Issue will focus on ecological research being conducted in extreme environments as well as its applications and implications in other fields, such as biotechnology and astrobiology, and understanding the limits of life. Research in the area of technology and techniques development, such as molecular ecology protocols and/or new instruments for life identification, using extreme environments as research facilities will also be accepted.
Dr. Felipe Gómez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- extreme environments
- microbiology
- extremophiles
- biotechnology
- astrobiology
- life
- ecology
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