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Microorganisms Discovered on the Rio Grande Rise Are a Basis for Life and a Possible Origin of Metals
Publicado em 26 maio 2021
Researchers conducted the first large-scale survey of the microbiota present in the seamount’s ferromanganese crusts, describing bacteria and archaea involved in the nutrient cycle and formation of metals.
The abundant biological and mineral diversity of the Rio Grande Rise, a seamount in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean about 1,500 km from the coast of Brazil, is probably due to a great extent to little-known microscopic creatures.
Researchers affiliated with the University of [...]