According to Valentine, the genetic mutation that engenders these potential variations may be a key element to survival of
archaea beneath Earth's surface.
Not exact matches
Recently, while searching the ocean's depths off the coast of Santa Monica, California, a team of UC Santa Barbara scientists discovered something odder still: a remarkable new virus that seemingly infects methane - eating
archaea living
beneath the ocean's floor.
While Price is not expecting any time soon a mission to Mars to drill several hundred meters
beneath the surface, methanogens (methane - generating
Archaea) could just as easily be detected around meteor craters where rock has been thrown up from deep underground.