Elucidating microbial interactions, adaptations, and evolution under extreme environmental conditions in modern microbial mats from Shark Bay, Western Australia

Fossilized microbial mats dating back 2+ Ga record some of the earliest evidence of life on Earth. These ancient pustular mats preserve evidence of microbial production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), revealing the potential importance of EPS in the protection and preservation of these...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skoog, Emilie J.
Other Authors: Bosak, Tanja
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153075
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-8717