Life at extreme elevations on Atacama volcanoes: the closest thing to Mars on Earth?

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

• Publication date

  2018-03-20

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s10482-018-1066-0PMID 29557533
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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