Heat Loving Bacteria and Archaea (IMAGE)

Desert Research Institute

Heat Loving Bacteria and Archaea

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A proposed update to the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes would allow scientists to assign official names to uncultivated species of Bacteria and Archaea, such as the specimens shown in this enrichment culture of heat-loving Bacteria and Archaea from a hot spring.

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Anna-Louise Reysenbach

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