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Hyperexpansion of genetic diversity and metabolic capacity of extremophilic bacteria and archaea in ancient Andean lake sediments.
Microbiome - 17 Sept 2024
Lezcano María Ángeles, Bornemann Till L V, Sánchez-García Laura, Carrizo Daniel, Adam Panagiotis S, Esser Sarah P, Cabrol Nathalie A, Probst Alexander J, Parro Víctor
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BACKGROUND: The Andean Altiplano hosts a repertoire of high-altitude lakes with harsh conditions for life. These lakes are undergoing a process of desiccation caused by the current climate, leaving terraces exposed to extreme atmospheric conditions and serving as analogs to Martian paleolake basins. Microbiomes in Altiplano lake terraces have been poorly studied, enclosing uncultured lineages and a great...
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