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- noun Plural form of
psychrophile .
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Buford Price 2000 “A habitat for psychrophiles in deep Antarctic ice” PNAS 97, 1247-1251.
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Shewanella halifaxensis and Shewanella sediminis were among a few aquatic γ-proteobacteria that were psychrophiles and the first anaerobic bacteria that degraded hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX).
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Buford Price 2000 “A habitat for psychrophiles in deep Antarctic ice” PNAS 97, 1247-1251 “Microbes, some of which may be viable, have been found in ice cores drilled at Vostok Station at depths down to approx 3,600 m, close to the surface of the huge subglacial Lake Vostok.
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