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Foreword: Michael W.W. Adams, Robert J. Maier, and Juergen Wiegel Part I: Diversity and Physiology of Various Anaerobes: 1. Diversity of Thermophilic Anaerobes: Isaac D. Wagner and Juergen Wiegel 2. Life at Extreme Limits: The Anaerobic Halophilic Alkalithermophiles: Noha M. Mesbah and Juergen Wiegel 3. Physiology, Ecology, Phylogeny, and Genomics of Microorganisms Capable of Syntrophic Metabolism: Michael J. McInerney, Christopher G. Struchtemeyer , Jessica Sieber, Housna Mouttaki , Alfons J. M. Stams, Bernhard Schink, Lars Rohlin, Robert P. Gunsalus 4. Comparative Genomics of Clostridia: Link between the Ecological Niche and Cell Surface Properties: Holger Brüggemann and Gerhard Gottschalk 5. Anaerobic Metabolism of Aromatic Compounds: Georg Fuchs Part II: Acetogens and Homoacetogenic Fermentation: 6. Old Acetogens, New Light: Harold L. Drake, Anita S. Gößner, and Steven L. Daniel 7. Enzymology of the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway of Acetogenesis: Stephen W. Ragsdale 8. Discovery of a Ferredoxin:NAD+-Oxidoreductase in Acetobacterium woodii: A Novel Potential Coupling Site in Acetogens: Volker Müller, Frank Imkamp, Eva Biegel, Silke Schmidt, and Sabrina Dilling Part III: Methanogens and Methanogenesis: 9. Methanogenesis in Marine Sediments: James G. Ferry and Daniel J. Lessner 10. Methane as Fuel for Anaerobic Microorganisms: Rudolf K. Thauer and Seigo Shima 11. Metabolic, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Diversity of the Methanogenic Archaea: Yuchen Liu and William B. Whitman 12. Promiscuous Anaerobes: New and Unconventional Metabolism in Methanogenic Archaea: Laura L. Grochowski and Robert H. White Part IV: Metal Reductions and Metal Enzymes: 13. Tungsten, the Surprisingly Positively Acting Heavy Metal Element for Prokaryotes: Jan R. Andreesen and Kathrin Makdessi 14. Transformation of Inorganic and Organic Arsenic by Alkaliphilus oremlandii sp. nov. Strain OhILAs: Edward Fisher, Asia M. Dawson, Ganna Polshnya, Joy Lisak, Bryan Crable, Eranda Perera, Mrunalni Ranganathan, Mirunalni Thangavelu, Partha Basu, and John F. Stolz 15. Hydrogen and Nickel Metabolism in Helicobacter species: Stéphane L. Benoit and Robert J. Maier 16. Hydrogenases of the Model Hyperthermophiles: Francis E. Jenney Jr. and Michael W.W. Adams. Part V. Cellulolytic Anaerobes and Their Cellulolytic Enzymes: 17. Cellulases of Mesophilic Microorganisms: Cellulosome and Non-cellulosome Producers: Roy H. Doi 18. Plant Cell Wall Breakdown by Anaerobic Micro-organisms from the Mammalian Digestive Tract: Harry J. Flinta and Edward A. Bayer 19. Three Microbial Strategies for Plant Cell Wall Degradation: David B. Wilson 20. Bacterial Cellulose Hydrolysis in Anaerobic Environmental SubsystemsClostridium thermocellum and Clostridium stercorarium, Thermophilic Plant Fiber Degraders: Vladimir V. Zverlov and Wolfgang H. Schwarz 21. The Cellulase/Hemicellulase System of the Anaerobic Fungus Orpinomyces PC-2 and Aspects of Its Applied Use: Lars G. Ljungdahl Part VI: Applied Aspects and Fuel Production: 22. Polysaccharide Degradation and Synthesis by Extremely Thermophilic Anaerobes: Amy L. VanFossen, Derrick L. Lewis, Jason D. Nichols, and Robert M. Kelly 23. A Preliminary Analysis of Microbial and Biochemical Properties of High-Temperature Compost: Tairo Oshima and Toshiyuki Moriya 24. Microbiology to Help Solve Our Energy Needs: Methanogenesis from Oil and Impact of Nitrate on the Oil-field Sulfur Cycle: Alexander Grigoryan and Gerrit Voordouw 25. Fermentative Butanol Production: Bulk Chemical and Biofuel: Peter Dürre 26. Anaerobic Respiration in Engineered Escherichia coli with an Internal Electron Acceptor to Produce Fuel Ethanol: Joy Doran Peterson and Lonnie O. Ingram