Bugs N the 'hood

摘要

The field of microbial genomics has embarked in a new direction, as shown by sequence analysis of a community of microbes from a biofilm growing on the surface of acid mine drainage (AMD) at the Richmond mine at Iron Mountain in California. The underground AMD site has a community with a low diversity of microorganisms (based on 16S rRNA analysis), which is probably not surprising given that the environment consists of a pH of 0.83, a temperature of 42 ℃ and high concentrations of several heavy metals.