Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context
Living at the Extremes: Extremophiles and the Limits of Life in a Planetary Context
Nancy Merino1,2,3, Heidi S. Aronson4, Diana P. Bojanova1, Jayme Feyhl-Buska1, Michael L. Wong5,6, Shu Zhang7 and Donato Giovannelli2,8,9,10*
1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
2Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
3Biosciences and Biotechnology Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, United States
4Department of Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
5Department of Astronomy – Astrobiology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
6NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
7Section of Infection and Immunity, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
8Department of Biology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
9Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
10Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology, National Research Council of Italy, Ancona, Italy
Prokaryotic life has dominated most of the evolutionary history of our planet, evolving to occupy virtually all available environmental niches. Extremophile...
Source: Frontiers in Microbiology - Category: Microbiology Source Type: research
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