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Halophilic Archaea Cultivated from Surface Sterilized Middle-Late Eocene Rock Salt Are Polyploid

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Changes in plant communities, soil characteristics, and microbial communities in alpine meadows degraded to different degrees by pika on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

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The complete genome of a viable archaeum isolated from 123‐million‐year‐old rock salt

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Relative Roles of Deterministic and Stochastic Processes in Driving the Vertical Distribution of Bacterial Communities in a Permafrost Core from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

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Wake me when it’s over – Bacterial toxin–antitoxin proteins and induced dormancy

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Microbial Sulfate Reduction Potential in Coal-Bearing Sediments Down to ~2.5 km below the Seafloor off Shimokita Peninsula, Japan

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Diverse deep-sea anglerfishes share a genetically reduced luminous symbiont that is acquired from the environment

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Ancient Microbes from Halite Fluid Inclusions: Optimized Surface Sterilization and DNA Extraction

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Intact DNA in ancient permafrost

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Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair (vol 104, pg 14401, 2007)

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Is the ancient permafrost bacteria able to keep DNA stable?

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