#Hot_springs bubble up insights into #microbe #communities
#mightymicrobes #extremophiles #thermophiles #microbiome #DOE #ORNL
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-hot-insights-microbe-communities.html
Boiling hot water bubbles up into pools of vibrant teal and blue. The steam rises, burning anyone who gets too close. The water is acidic—sometimes as acidic as stomach acid. Microbes in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park have evolved to live in such extreme circumstances.
Volcanic #hot_springs dwelling #algae reveal #photosynthetic insights
#thermophiles #Cyanidioschyzon #carbon_concentrating_mechanism #CCM
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-volcanic-hot-algae-reveal-photosynthetic.html
Italy's Phlegraean Fields is a hotspot of volcanic activity—an ever-shifting landscape pocketed with acidic hot springs. This huge caldera is a part of the Campanian volcanic arc, which includes Mount Vesuvius, whose eruption wiped out the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 C.E. Yet, despite the hostile and scalding conditions of this environment, some microorganisms thrive.
Scientists reveal new findings on the #ancient_life found in #Yellowstone #hot_springs
#hyperthermophiles #respiration #anaerobic #sulfides #evolution #genomis
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-reveal-ancient-life-yellowstone.html
In the journal Nature Communications, Montana State University scientists in the College of Agriculture highlight fresh knowledge of how ancient microorganisms adapted from a low-oxygen prehistoric environment to the one that exists today. The work builds on more than two decades of scientific research in Yellowstone National Park by MSU professor Bill Inskeep.
Scientists publish first experimental evidence for new groups of #methane-producing organisms.
#methanogens #Archaea #extremophiles #hot_springs #Thermoproteota #biodiversity
https://phys.org/news/2024-07-scientists-publish-experimental-evidence-groups.html
A team of scientists from Montana State University has provided the first experimental evidence that two new groups of microbes thriving in thermal features in Yellowstone National Park produce methane—a discovery that could one day contribute to the development of methods to mitigate climate change and provide insight into potential life elsewhere in our solar system.
Discovery of a third #RNA #virus lineage in extreme environments.
#extremophile #LUCA #hot_springs #thermoacidophilic
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-discovery-rna-virus-lineage-extreme.html
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