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Antarctic microbes live life to the extreme

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Chilean Antarctic survey finds dramatic variety of organisms adapted to unusual conditions.

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Segura Ortiz, P. Antarctic microbes live life to the extreme. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.207

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