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Actinobacteria: Basic Adaptation to Harsh Environments
Adverse physicochemical environments are significant sources to recover the extreme actinobacterial communities. In these harsh environmental...
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Prokaryotic diversity across a pH gradient in the “El Chichón” crater-lake: a naturally thermo-acidic environment
The "El Chichón" crater-lake in Mexico is a thermo-acidic environment whose microorganisms have been scarcely studied. In this study, we surveyed the...
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Use of modified ichip for the cultivation of thermo-tolerant microorganisms from the hot spring
BackgroundThermostable microorganisms are extremophiles. They have a special genetic background and metabolic pathway and can produce a variety of...
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Diverse and common features of trehalases and their contributions to microbial trehalose metabolism
Trehalose is a stable disaccharide that consists of two glucose units linked primarily by an α,α-(1 → 1)-linkage, and it has been found in a wide...
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Purification and characterization of a novel thermophilic β-galactosidase from Picrophilus torridus of potential industrial application
Intracellular β-galactosidase (E.C 3.2.1.23) produced by the thermoacidophilic archeon Picrophilus torridus DSM 9790 was purified to homogeneity...
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Population Genomics of Archaea: Signatures of Archaeal Biology from Natural Populations
Since the advance of high-throughput whole-genome sequencing, microbial population biology has been providing insight into the processes that...
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Microorganisms from deep-sea hydrothermal vents
With a rich variety of chemical energy sources and steep physical and chemical gradients, hydrothermal vent systems offer a range of habitats to...
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Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic sulfur- and iron-reducing thaumarchaeote from a terrestrial acidic hot spring
A deep-branching clade of Thaumarchaeota , conventionally called Terrestrial hot spring creanarchaeotic group (THSCG), is a missing link between...
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Temperature and elemental sulfur shape microbial communities in two extremely acidic aquatic volcanic environments
Aquatic environments of volcanic origin provide an exceptional opportunity to study the adaptations of microorganisms to early planet life...
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Functional Niche Under Abiotic Stress
The ecosystem functioning of any functional niche is largely dependent on the structure and organization of the inhabiting microbial communities. The...
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Biotechnological applications of archaeal enzymes from extreme environments
To date, many industrial processes are performed using chemical compounds, which are harmful to nature. An alternative to overcome this problem is...
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Microbial Life in Stress of Oxygen Concentration: Physiochemical Properties and Applications
Anaerobic extremophiles are generally obligate anaerobes that strictly require anoxic environment; however, facultative anaerobe can tolerate both...
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Metabolic versatility of small archaea Micrarchaeota and Parvarchaeota
Small acidophilic archaea belonging to Micrarchaeota and Parvarchaeota phyla are known to physically interact with some Thermoplasmatales members in...
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Microbial Diversity of High-Altitude Geothermal Springs in Tajikistan
Thermophiles are a group of heat loving microbes thriving in various hot ecological niches including geothermal springs. Many high-altitude...
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Darwin’s Science’s Impact on the Evolution of the Microbiological Sciences
Charles Darwin is not known as a pioneer of the microbiological sciences, but examinations of his correspondence demonstrate that he was informed...
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Role of extremophiles and their extremozymes in biorefinery process of lignocellulose degradation
Technological advances in the field of life sciences have led to discovery of organisms that live in harsh environmental conditions referred to as...
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Eukaryotic organisms of continental hydrothermal systems
Continental hydrothermal systems are a dynamic component of global thermal and geochemical cycles, exerting a pronounced impact on water chemistry...
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Genome analysis of the thermoacidophilic archaeon Acidianus copahuensis focusing on the metabolisms associated to biomining activities
BackgroundSeveral archaeal species from the order Sulfolobales are interesting from the biotechnological point of view due to their biomining...
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Extremophilic Fungi for the Synthesis of Nanomolecules
Since the past few decades, metal nanoparticles have attracted enormous attention in the scientific world as a result of their anti-cancer,...
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Genome sequence, transcriptome, and annotation of rodent malaria parasite Plasmodium yoelii nigeriensis N67
BackgroundRodent malaria parasites are important models for studying host-malaria parasite interactions such as host immune response, mechanisms of...
