Alga Hijacked Bacterial Genes to Weather Extreme Environments (7 of 8) (IMAGE)

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Alga Hijacked Bacterial Genes to Weather Extreme Environments (7 of 8)

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Galdieria sulphuraria (dense) liquid culture. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the March 8, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Gerald Schönknecht at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK, and colleagues was titled, "Gene Transfer from Bacteria and Archaea Facilitated Evolution of an Extremophilic Eukaryote."

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