摘要
A new Nature Biotechnology study reported on June 27 has generated a genome and gene catalog of the Tibetan glacier microbiome.Notably,it reveals many unique organisms that have been found nowhere else.LIU Yongqin at L anzhou University in China,LUO Yingfeng at the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,and their colleagues gathered bacteria and the microscopic life forms called archaea from 21 glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau.Genetic sequencing of the samples yielded evidence of 968 microbial species and over 25 million genes.
