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C Vasconcelos1, J A McKenzie

  • 1Geological Institute, Eidgen¿ssische Technische Hochschule-Zentrum, 8092 Z¿rich, Switzerland. chris.vasconcelos@erdw.ethz.ch

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 24, 2001
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Las bacterias reductoras de sulfatos, cruciales para los ciclos geoquímicos, pueden precipitar minerales de sulfuro de zinc incluso en entornos con poco oxígeno. Este descubrimiento apoya su papel en la formación de depósitos de mineral y tiene implicaciones para la biorremediación y la comprensión de procesos geológicos pasados.

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