Archaea Research (IMAGE)

University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Archaea Research

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The core sample has just been brought up from the bottom of the Aarhus Bay and is being cut up. The researchers find archaea in the samples, which--to their great surprise--turn out to live on protein degradation.

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Bo Barker Jørgensen, Aarhus University

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