Great Boiling Springs, Nevada (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Great Boiling Springs, Nevada

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A 94°C geothermal pool, with a level-maintaining siphon, near Gerlach, Nevada. Sediment from the floor of this pool was enriched on pulverized miscanthus at 90°C and subsequently transferred to filter paper in order to isolate microbes able to subsist on cellulose alone.

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Frank Robb, University of Maryland School of Medicine

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