Polyextremophile
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A polyextremophile (to like several extremes in more-or-less Greek) is an organism which combines several extremophilic features. For example, a polyextremophile living at the summit of a mountain in the Atacama Desert might be a radioresistant xerophile, a psychrophile, and an oligotroph.
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Acidophile • Alkaliphile • Barophile • Capnophile • Endolith • Halophile • Hyperthermophile • Hypolith • Lithoautotroph • Lithophile • Oligotroph • Osmophile • Piezophile • Polyextremophile • Psychrophile • Thermophile • Xerophile • |
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Notable extremophiles |
Chloroflexus aurantiacus • Deinococcus radiodurans • Deinococcus-Thermus • Paralvinella sulfincola • Pompeii worm • Pyrococcus furiosus • Snottite • Strain 121 • Thermus aquaticus • Thermus thermophilus • |
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Related articles |
Archaea • Abiogenic petroleum origin • Acidithiobacillales • Acidobacteria • Archaeoglobaceae • Berkeley Pit • Crenarchaeota • Grylloblattidae • Halobacteria • Halobacterium • Hydrothermal vent • Methanopyrus • Radioresistance • Thermostability • Thermotogae • |
