Findings reveal an unprecedented level of taxonomic novelty, with 89.4% of identified microbial species previously unreported. The study demonstrated that selection pressures, favoring either ...

Animal and plant populations have been extensively studied, which has helped to understand ecosystem processes and evolutionary adaptations. However, this has not been the case with microbial ...

“The discovery of this new microbe is not immediately concerning but warrants careful study,” Javier Martin-Torres, the University of Aberdeen, Scotland professor of planetary science, said in an ...

The newly generated dataset provides a springboard for future studies on deep-sea microbial adaptation with potential applications in biotechnology and environmental science. MEER datasets are now ...