Bacteria in natural and artificial environments often reside in self-organized, integrated
communities known as biofilms. Biofilms are highly structured entities consisting of bacterial …

Microbiomes are foundational components of the environment that provide essential
services relating to food security, carbon sequestration, human health, and the overall well …

The Rehai and Ruidian geothermal fields, located in Tengchong County, Yunnan Province,
China, host a variety of geochemically distinct hot springs. In this study, we report a …

Microbes of the phylum Aigarchaeota are widely distributed in geothermal environments, but
their physiological and ecological roles are poorly understood. Here we analyze six …

Advances in recent years have revolutionized our understanding of both the context and
occurrence of polyploidy in plants. Molecular phylogenetics has vastly improved our …

Abstract Great Boiling Spring is a large, circumneutral, geothermal spring in the US Great
Basin. Twelve samples were collected from water and four different sediment sites on four …

Nitrifying microorganisms occur across a wide temperature range from 4 to 84° C and
previous studies in geothermal systems revealed their activity under extreme conditions …

The geosphere and the microbial biosphere have co-evolved for~ 3.8 Ga, with many lines of
evidence suggesting a hydrothermal habitat for life's origin. However, the extent that …

Geothermal hot springs are a natural setting to study microbial adaptation to a wide range of
temperatures reaching up to boiling. Temperature gradients lead to distinct microbial …

Thousands of hot springs are located in the north‐eastern part of the Y unnan–T ibet
geothermal zone, which is one of the most active geothermal areas in the world. However, a …