Posted byShige Abe

April 25, 2005
Research Highlight
New Endolithic Microbial Community at Yellowstone
This week in Nature, members of NAI’s University of Colorado, Boulder team published their description of an extremely acidic, endolithic, microbial community inhabiting the pore spaces between rocks Yellowstone National Park’s Norris Geyser Basin. The community includes mainly photosynthetic algae and previously unknown Mycobacterium species.