Huge microbial diversity adapted to extreme conditions on a 11,000-year-old lake terrace

20 September, 2024

An international group of scientists led by the Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), INTA- CSIC, and the IMDEA Water Institute, in Madrid (Spain), identified hundreds of new microbial genomes of previously unreported species in 11,000-year-old sediments from Laguna Lejía, a lake in the Chilean Altiplano

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