Genetic adaptations are key to microbe's survival in challenging environment
Friday, February 6, 2009 - 12:42
in Biology & Nature
The research focused on the bacterium Nautilia profundicola, a microbe that survives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Photosynthesis cannot occur in this dark environment, where hot, toxic fluids oozing from below the seafloor combine with cold seawater at very high pressures.