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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2023
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153075 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-8717 |