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The Habitats

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Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures

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One of the attractions of the research on extreme environments is that it must, by necessity, involve study of natural environments. Thus, the work immediately becomes habitat-orientated or geographic. This appeals to many, as they imagine the glamour of traveling to exotic places. And it is a strange thing that good geothermal areas are, to a great extent, situated in exciting locales. This indeed adds a certain attraction to the work, but one soon becomes immersed in the microscope or the Teflon homogenizer, and the excitement palls. When I tried to publish a picture of a light-reduction setup in a Yellowstone hot spring (Figure 10.5), one of the reviewers for the Journal of Bacteriology demanded that the picture be removed, as all it would do would be to elicit envy in the reader. A strange reason! (The picture stayed in.)

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Brock, T.D. (1978). The Habitats. In: Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures. Springer Series in Microbiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6284-8_2

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