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Extreme Views on Prokaryote Evolution

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Microbiology of Extreme Soils

Part of the book series: Soil Biology ((SOILBIOL,volume 13))

Not two soils are identical. Not two bacteria are identical either, with perhaps even not two daughter cells as they emerge from symmetric division being rigorously the same (Stewart et al. 2005). However, it might be easier to draw generalizations from observations of Escherichia coli or Caulobacter crescentus than from soil studies. This might explain why the bacterial cell has been deemed a more popular object of theoretical reflections than has the soil environment, although remarkable concepts on soil biology have emerged (Wardle et al. 2004; Young and Crawford 2004). This being said, extreme soils may appear as a particularly fruitful ground for those of us who feel seduced by the “idea of the soil” and who wish to venture on such a (admittedly slippery) terrain.

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Dion, P. (2008). Extreme Views on Prokaryote Evolution. In: Dion, P., Nautiyal, C.S. (eds) Microbiology of Extreme Soils. Soil Biology, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74231-9_3

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