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November 16, 2007
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Virus that lives in Yellowstone hot springs.
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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