- EAN13
- 9781472144164
- Éditeur
- Robinson
- Date de publication
- 08/02/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
Microlands
The Future of Life on Earth (and Why It's Smaller Than You Think)
J. Craig Venter, David Ewing Duncan
Robinson
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"Will undoubtedly shape our understanding of the global ecosystem for decades
to come."- Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell
Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J.
Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on
earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest
and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot
sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65,000 miles around the
globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within.
In this book, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable
story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued-of
plant-like bacteria that get their energy from the sun, proteins that
metabolize vast amounts of hydrogen, and microbes whose genes shield them from
ultraviolet light. The result was a massive library of millions of unknown
genes, thousands of unseen protein families, and new lineages of bacteria that
revealed the unimaginable complexity of life on earth. Yet despite this
exquisite diversity, Venter encountered sobering reminders of how human
activity is disturbing the delicate microbial ecosystem that nurtures life on
earth. In the face of unprecedented climate change, Venter and Duncan show how
we can harness the microbial genome to develop alternative sources of energy,
food, and medicine that might ultimately avert our destruction.
A captivating story of exploration and discovery, this book restores microbes
to their rightful place as crucial partners in our evolutionary past and
guides to our future.
to come."- Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Song of the Cell
Upon completing his historic work on the Human Genome Project in 2002, J.
Craig Venter declared that he would sequence the genetic code of all life on
earth. Thus began a fifteen-year quest to collect DNA from the world's oldest
and most abundant form of life: microbes. Boarding the Sorcerer II, a 100-foot
sailboat turned research vessel, Venter travelled over 65,000 miles around the
globe to sample ocean water and the microscopic life within.
In this book, Venter and science writer David Ewing Duncan tell the remarkable
story of these expeditions and of the momentous discoveries that ensued-of
plant-like bacteria that get their energy from the sun, proteins that
metabolize vast amounts of hydrogen, and microbes whose genes shield them from
ultraviolet light. The result was a massive library of millions of unknown
genes, thousands of unseen protein families, and new lineages of bacteria that
revealed the unimaginable complexity of life on earth. Yet despite this
exquisite diversity, Venter encountered sobering reminders of how human
activity is disturbing the delicate microbial ecosystem that nurtures life on
earth. In the face of unprecedented climate change, Venter and Duncan show how
we can harness the microbial genome to develop alternative sources of energy,
food, and medicine that might ultimately avert our destruction.
A captivating story of exploration and discovery, this book restores microbes
to their rightful place as crucial partners in our evolutionary past and
guides to our future.
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