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Biochemical Adaptation - Response to Environmental Challenges from Life's Origins to the Anthropocene (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Biochemical Adaptation - Response to Environmental Challenges from Life's Origins to the Anthropocene (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Published by Sinauer Associates, an imprint of Oxford University
Press. 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 and processes across a wide range of
environments. In addition to these conservative adaptations that
foster a biochemical unity among diverse species, other adaptations
can be viewed as innovative changes that enable organisms to
exploit new features of the environment that may themselves be the
result of biological activities. The opening chapter outlines the
basic principles of biochemical adaptations and raises the
questions that serve as the focal points for the detailed analysis
found in the next three chapters, which are devoted to the study of
relationships involving oxygen, temperature, and water-solute
effects. In these three chapters, the effects of the variable in
question on fundamental biochemical processes and structures are
examined. This analysis forms a basis for the subsequent analysis
of how adaptive changes modify biochemical systems to establish
environmental optima and tolerance limits. This analysis includes
examples from all Domains of Life to emphasize the commonality of
the fundamental strategies of biochemical adaptation. The final
chapter examines the challenges organisms face from the rapid
environmental changes that are occurring in the Anthropocene. The
effects of co-occurring changes in multiple stressors are examined
to provide a realistic and integrative analysis of effects of
global change. The underlying genetic capacities of different types
of organisms to adapt to rapid environmental change are discussed
to provide a basis for predicting the relative success different
species-including our own-face in a rapidly changing world.
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