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Antarctic bacteria share ‘life‑support’ genes to survive extreme conditions

Antarctic bacteria share ‘life‑support’ genes to survive extreme conditions

Existence is hard in the frozen Antarctic soil – and microbes use ‘horizontal gene transfer’ to share the tools that keep them alive.

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Yongyi Peng