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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wall, Kate, Cornell, Jennifer, Bizzoco, Richard W, Kelley, Scott T
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4398508/