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1. Extremophiles
The concept of extremophiles was coined by microbiologists who played a pioneering role in discovering new species of microorganisms in environments previously considered sterile. Such was the case of T. Brock, who in the late 1960s discovered the first species to grow at temperatures of around 70°C in the hot springs of Yellowstone Park in the United States. In 1969, he particularly isolated Thermus aquaticus, the basis for the discovery of thermostable DNA polymerases . At the same time, K. Horikoshi in Japan discovered the existence of microbes that thrived only at alkaline pH and had previously gone almost completely unnoticed...
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Properties of extremophiles
Bibliography
Websites
NOAA sediment thickness http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/image/sedthick9.jpg (page consulted August 21, 2009)
EUZEBY (J.P.) List of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature
ICSP http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/...
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Xylanases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them WO/2009/045627.
Glucanases, nucleic acids encoding them and methods for making and using them WO/2009/020459.
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