Biochemical Adaptation: Response to Environmental Challenges from Life's Origins to the Anthropocene

by Lars Tomanek, Brent L. Lockwood, George N. Somero

The abiotic characteristics of the environment--including temperature, oxygen availability, salinity, and hydrostatic pressure--present challenges to all biochemical structures and processes. This volume first examines the nature of these perturbations to biochemical systems and then elucidates the major adaptive strategies that enable organisms from all Domains of Life--Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya--to conserve common types of biochemical structures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 160535564X
• ISBN13: 9781605355641
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford Un
• Length: 572 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.2" x 10.2"