Advanced Collection of Resources on Microbial Life Under High Pressure


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  • High pressure: Bacteria survive inside diamond anvil:Researchers exposed samples of Shewanella oneidensis and Escherichia coli to pressures 16,000 times greater than sea-level pressure...(more info)

  • Methane bacteria possess pressure valve:This report from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research introduces a methane-forming archaeabacterium that deliberately allows hydrogen ions to leak out...(more info)

  • Leg 201 Preliminary Report:Controls on Microbial Communities in Deeply Buried Sediments, Eastern Equatorial Pacific and Peru Margin::This PDF document is the preliminary report of the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 201, which is the first ocean drilling expedition dedicated to the study of life deep beneath the seafloor...(more info)

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    Sampling the deep sea floor

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    Subsurface remnants of bacterial metabolism

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