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Enigmatic Microorganisms and Life in Extreme Environments pp 163–173Cite as

Eukaryotic Cells Under Extreme Conditions

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Part of the book series: Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats ((COLE,volume 1))

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Modern biology has taken a few laboratory strains to its heart and has sought to extrapolate from these some general rules for life. But, the laboratory workhorses of Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerivisae cannot be taken as typical or representative of a diversity that has evolved over thousands of millions of years. This may be self evident, yet how often do you see sweeping statements of the form “eukaryotes are …” or “eukaryotes have …” based on observations from yeast, mouse and man? Saccharomyces is an unusual eukaryote in that it is an osmotrophic heterotroph with a very fast growth cycle, for instance.

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Roberts, D.M.L. (1999). Eukaryotic Cells Under Extreme Conditions. In: Seckbach, J. (eds) Enigmatic Microorganisms and Life in Extreme Environments. Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4838-2_13

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