Open AccessCold is cool, the human microbiota and taking multiple SIPs
Author(s) -
Daniels Craig,
Michán Carmen,
Ramos JuanLuis
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
microbial biotechnology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.287
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 1751-7915
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2011.00287.x
Subject(s) - psychrophile , extremophile , biochemistry , extreme environment , enzyme , cold shock domain , biology , chemistry , bacteria , genetics , thermophile , gene , rna
on enzymes from cold places; they start indi-cating that the temperature of the bulk of the Earth’sbiosphere is below 6°C (e.g. 90% of the ocean’s waters),and that this cold water sustains a broad diversity ofmicrobial life. Permanently cold environments are alsofound on land, high mountains and polar regions. Theexploration of those environments is revealing an unex-pected microbial biodiversity (Campanaro