Biocommunication of Archaea

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Keylevels of Biocommunication of Archaea

   • Guenther Witzany

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3. The Cooccurrence of Archaea and Bacteria Among Diverse Globally Distributed Ecosystems

   • Daniel R. Colman

   Pages 17-26

4. Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer Between Archaea and Bacteria

   • Cuiping Zhao, Yuchen Liu

   Pages 27-40

5. Why Archaea Are Limited in Their Exploitation of Other, Living Organisms

   • Stephen T. Abedon

   Pages 41-66

6. Archaeal Surface Structures and Their Role in Communication with the Extracellular Environment

   • Sonja-Verena Albers, Tessa E. F. Quax

   Pages 67-84

7. Archaeal Biocommunication in Hot Springs Revealed by Metagenomics

   • María-Eugenia DeCastro, Juan-José Escuder-Rodríguez, Manuel Becerra, Esther Rodríguez-Belmonte, María-Isabel González-Siso

   Pages 85-101

8. Sexual Communication in Archaea, the Precursor to Eukaryotic Meiosis

   • Harris Bernstein, Carol Bernstein

   Pages 103-117

9. Quorum Sensing in Archaea: Recent Advances and Emerging Directions

   • James C. Charlesworth, Charlotte Beloe, Cara Watters, Brendan P. Burns

   Pages 119-132

10. Biofilm Lifestyle of Thermophile and Acidophile Archaea

    • Alvaro Orell, Simone Schopf, Lennart Randau, Mario Vera

    Pages 133-146

11. The Compressed Vocabulary of the Proteins of Archaea

    • Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Bushra F. Minhas, Fayez Aziz, Fizza Mughal, Khuram Shahzad, Guy Tal et al.

    Pages 147-174

12. KaiC-like ATPases as Signal Transduction Hubs in Archaea

    • Kira S. Makarova, Eugene V. Koonin

    Pages 175-194

13. Archaea Were Trailblazers in Signaling Evolution: Protein Adaptation and Structural Fluidity as a Form of Intracellular Communication

    • Savannah Spradlin, Lori Cobani, Christian Brininger, Caryn Evilia

    Pages 195-211

14. Protein Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation and Signal Processing in the Archaea

    • Peter J. Kennelly

    Pages 213-234

15. Secondary Metabolites in Archaea and Extreme Environments

    • Shengqin Wang, Zuhong Lu

    Pages 235-239

16. Evolutionary Interaction Between Archaeal-Eukaryal Cell Lineages and Viruses

    • Masaharu Takemura, Tomohiro Mochizuki

    Pages 241-264

17. Inteins as Indicators of Bio-Communication

    • Shannon M. Soucy, J. Peter Gogarten

    Pages 265-275

18. Riboswitches: Regulatory ncRNAs in Archaea

    • D. Swati

    Pages 277-303

19. DNA Damage Repair in Archaea

    • Qunxin She, Xu Feng, Wenyuan Han

    Pages 305-318

20. Archaeal Lipids as an Adaptation to Higher Temperatures?

    • David Penny

    Pages 319-324

Archaea represent a third domain of life with unique properties not found in the other domains. Archaea actively compete for environmental resources. They perceive themselves and can distinguish between ‘self’ and ‘non-self’. They process and evaluate available information and then modify their behaviour accordingly. They assess their surroundings, estimate how much energy they need for particular goals, and then realize the optimum variant. These highly diverse competences show us that this is possible owing to sign(aling)-
mediated communication processes within archaeal cells (intra-organismic), between the same, related and different archaeal species (interorganismic), and between archaea and nonarchaeal organisms (transorganismic). This is crucial in coordinating growth and development, shape and dynamics. Such communication must function both on the local level and between widely separated colony parts. This allows archaea to coordinate appropriate response behaviors in a differentiated manner to their current developmental status and physiological influences. This book will orientate further investigations on how archaeal ecosphere inhabitants communicate with each other to coordinate their behavioral patterns and whats the role of viruses in this highly dynamic interactional networks.

• Archaea communication
• Archaea ecology
• Archaea interactions
• Archaea signalling
• Micro organism

• Telos-Philosophische Praxis, Bürmoos, Salzburg, Austria

  Guenther Witzany

Dr. Guenther Witzany, Telos- Philosophische Praxis,  Buermoos, Salzburg, Austria

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