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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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Published in:Front Microbiol
Main Author: Lusk, Bradley G.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6497744/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31080440
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.00818
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