Biodiversity hot spot on a hot spot: novel extremophile diversity in Hawaiian fumaroles
Fumaroles (steam vents) are the most common, yet least understood, microbial habitat in terrestrial geothermal settings. Long believed too extreme for life, recent advances in sample collection and DNA extraction methods have found that fumarole deposits and subsurface waters harbor a considerable d...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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BlackWell Publishing Ltd
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398508/ |