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Establishment of endolithic populations of extremophilic Cyanidiales (Rhodophyta).
BMC evolutionary biology - 5 Oct 2006
Yoon Hwan Su, Ciniglia Claudia, Wu Min, Comeron Josep M, Pinto Gabriele, Pollio Antonino, Bhattacharya Debashish
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Cyanidiales are unicellular extremophilic red algae that inhabit acidic and high temperature sites around hot springs and have also adapted to life in endolithic and interlithic habitats. Comparative genomic analysis of Cyanidioschyzon merolae and Galdieria sulphuraria predicts that the latter may be more broadly distributed in extreme environments because its genome contains membrane transporters...
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