Scientists Found Fatty Acids After Hydrolysis Of Purified Crude Oil Fractions
Monday, August 11, 2008 - 07:28
in Biology & Nature
The nature, activity and metabolism of microbes that inhabit the deep subsurface environment are a matter of ongoing debate. Primarily limited by temperature , little is known about secondary factors that restrict or enhance microbial activity or about the extent of a habitable environment deep below the surface. In particular, the degraders of chemically inert organic substrates remain elusive.