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CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 43, Issue -, Pages 139-147Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2018.01.011
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- Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica [Basal PFB-16, FONDECYT 1140048]
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Extremely acidic environments have global distribution and can have natural or, increasingly, anthropogenic origins. Extreme acidophiles grow optimally at pH 3 or less, have multiple strategies for tolerating stresses that accompany high levels of acidity and are scattered in all three domains of the tree of life. Metagenomic studies have expanded knowledge of the diversity of extreme acidophile communities, their ecological networks and their metabolic potentials, both confirmed and inferred. High resolution compositional and functional profiling of these microbiomes have begun to reveal spatial diversity patterns at global, regional, local, zonal and micro-scales. Future integration of genomic and other meta-omic data will offer new opportunities to utilize acidic microbiomes and to engineer beneficial interactions within them in biotechnologies.
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