Microbial Diversity in a Hypersaline Sulfate Lake: A Terrestrial Analog of Ancient Mars
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Microbial Diversity in a Hypersaline Sulfate Lake: A Terrestrial Analog of Ancient Mars
Life can persist under severe osmotic stress and low water activity in hypersaline environments. On Mars, evidence for the past presence of saline bodies of water is prevalent and resulted in the widespread deposition of sulfate and chloride salts. Here we investigate Spotted Lake (British Columbia, Canada), a hypersaline lake with extreme (>3 M) levels of sulfate salts as an exemplar of the co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Microbiology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1664-302X
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01819