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> They’ve also existed for at least 35m years – and can be found today in freshwater lakes, ponds, streams and moist terrestrial habitats such as moss, lichen,
by NegativeLatency 5y ago
> They’ve also existed for at least 35m years – and can be found today in freshwater lakes, ponds, streams and moist terrestrial habitats such as moss, lichen, tree bark and soil.
Imagine how they’d feel about humans coming in and messing stuff up.
- fctorial 5y agoHow do they know that the sample wasn't contaminated?
- bluenose69 5y agoThe paper^[1] discusses metagenomic information that suggests the results are not the subject of contamination: > As only one pair of reads was found in the metagenome, the analyzed fragment was covered just once, necessarily capturing one gene variant. These results strongly suggest that the isolate originated from the permafrost layer and not sample contamination 1. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)00624-2 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)...