The grit crust: A poly-extremotolerant microbial community from the Atacama Desert as a model for astrobiology

The grit crust: A poly-extremotolerant microbial community from the Atacama Desert as a model for astrobiology

The grit crust is a recently discovered, novel type of biocrust made of prokaryotic cyanobacteria, eukaryotic green algae, fungi, lichens and other microbes that grow around and within granitoid stone pebbles of about 6 mm diameter in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert, Chile. The microbial com...

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Main Authors: Patrick Jung, Lukas W. Lehnert, Jörg Bendix, Guillaume Lentendu, Martin Grube, Fernando D. Alfaro, Camilo del Rio, José Luis Gutiérrez Alvarado, Liesbeth van den Brink, Michael Lakatos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Subjects:
grit crust
astrobiology
Atacama
Mars
cyanobacteria
lichens
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2022.1052278/full

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