Adaptations of endolithic communities to abrupt environmental changes in a hyper-arid desert

Abstract The adaptation mechanisms of microbial communities to natural perturbations remain unexplored, particularly in extreme environments. The extremophilic communities of halite (NaCl) nodules from the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert are self-sustained and represent a unique opportunity to...

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Main Authors: Cesar A. Perez-Fernandez, Paul Wilburn, Alfonso Davila, Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23437-w