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Thermophiles; or, the Modern Prometheus: The Importance of Extreme Microorganisms for Understanding and Applying Extracellular Electron Transfer
Approximately four billion years ago, the first microorganisms to thrive on earth were anaerobic chemoautotrophic thermophiles, a specific group of extremophiles that survive and operate at temperatures ∼50 – 125°C and do not use molecular oxygen (O(2)) for respiration. Instead, these microorganisms...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497744/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31080440 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00818 |