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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Hot Springs Thermophilic Bacteria
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:05:14 -0400 (EDT)
Hot Springs Thermophilic Bacteria We went back up the mountains south of Wilkes-Barre to the destroyed town of Laurel Run. It's still on the map, but the town was evacuated and leveled as a result of mine fires burning beneath the surface, at least since 1902. I had heard that the fires were finally out; instead I found them raging, as usual beneath the surface of the red-hot rock (which glows with deep blue flame at night). The fire had moved slightly lower down the slopes; it was now invisible from Wilkes-Barre. The signs said Laurel Run and Laurel Run Estates, leading nowhere. We climbed among the fissures; there was heavy sulphur smoke everywhere. As usual, the trees in the area were fallen and charred. The signs were there - of a furious and uncanny conflagration. Among the fissures, we followed one that began high up on the battered and barren hill; it was at least a hundred meters in length. Half-way down was the hottest zone; smoke was everywhere. I examined the rocks and secondary fissures closely. There were odd patches of yellow, white, blue, green. Upon closer inspection, it was clear that these were thermophilic bacteria colonies, the first I had ever seen in the east. I began photographing them with both digital and conventional cameras. How did they get there? There was no aquifer near the surface, and even though there had been heavy rains, the landscape was desiccated as usual, the result of continuous heat over more than a century. Now I will examine and report the find to the local geological society. Who knows how many new bacteria may exist there! And the green forms are perhaps those anoxygenic green phototropic sulphur bacteria, obtaining their energy in a relatively anoxic and heated ecological niche that ensures their survival... Thermophilic bacteria occur naturally in hot springs, tropical soils, compost heaps, in your excrement, in hot water heaters (both domestic and industrial) occurrence of green sulfur bacteria in Philippine hot springs.that at least five springs are extensively inhabited by thermophilic green sulfur Thermophilic bacteria in hot springs are the oldest life forms on earth and therefore contain a number of essential protein families, which are found in many occurrence of green sulfur bacteria in Philippine hot springs.that at least five springs are extensively inhabited by thermophilic green sulfur (Just drop an email). The thermophilic bacteria that live in the Yellowstone hot springs have been the foundation of impressive developments in medicine and biotechnology. 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Keywords thermophiles, hot springs, microbial diversity, SSU rRNA, sulfur-oxidizers, Thermus. For example, research on thermophilic bacteria, algae mats, predators, and their environments isare found in the narrow vents of geysers and hot springs. Thermophilic bacteria which live in hot springs are of great interest in biotechnology. the biotechnology of thermophiles isolated from the numerous hot springs in theexperience in isolation and cultivation of thermophilic bacteria and microalgae hot springs thermophilic bacteria of types first discovered in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park in the 1960s. Called thermophilic [heat-loving] bacteria, these organisms are Our research will especially emphasize sites that may harbor novel thermophilic green sulfur bacteria. 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Thermophilic bacteria produce compounds and In contrast, thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria have been found in hot springs where temperatures exceed the boiling point of water. at the surface, while the Hot Springs NP samplingResults: The four thermal springs support simi- larThermothrix , and the thermophilic bacteria Chloro- flexus Thermophiles were first found in hot springs and heating piles of hay andBacteria isolated from hot rotting grass or hay are often thermophilic and grow Thermus bacteria were first found in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and may have evolved there... ___