Living in the deep, dark, slow lane: Insights from the first global appraisal of microbiomes in earth’s subsurface environments

Which microbes thrive below us in darkness — in gold mines, in aquifers, in deep boreholes in the seafloor — and how do they compare to the microbiomes that envelop the Earth’s surfaces, on land and …

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