In the Patagonia region of southern Chile, there are “living rocks.”
While that’s what the locals say, Veronica Godoy-Carter, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at Northeastern University, says it’s a little more complicated than that.
“They’re actually little mountains,” she says, of “giant biofilms that are billions of years old. Literally billions.”
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Whole-genome sequencing of a Janthinobacterium sp. isolated from the Patagonian Desert
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