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News Release 07-169
Mobile Microbes: Viruses Living in Yellowstone's Hot Springs Travel Near and Far
Ability of extremophiles to live and travel outside of their hosts has implications for evolution and ecology
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A boiling hot spring from Yellowstone National Park, where mobile viruses live.
Credit: Mark Young, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University.
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Thermal features in Yellowstone's Crater Hills Basin, where some of the studies were conducted.
Credit: Mark Young, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University
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Electron micrography of virus that lives in Yellowstone hot springs, where the temperature and pH rival those of battery acid. This is one of two types of viruses that researchers identified as moving from hot spring to hot spring.
Credit: Mark Young, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University.
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