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Sir Moonbeam
I'm looking at the microbial diversity in an acid-sulfate geothermal pool.
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Care to elaborate? I'm interested.
I live in New Zealand and we have lots of active geothermal springs, I'm using DNA sequencing to look at the microbial ecology of Inferno Crater Lake. It has a really unique thermal cycle, over the course of a month it increases then decreases in temperature from 30 to 80 degrees celsius. It's also ph 2 so only acidophilic microbes can grow in it. I expect to see a change from bacterial species dominating the lower temperatures then archaea dominating the higher temperatures, and most of them will probably use sulfur as an energy source since there is butt tonnes of it in the water.
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