• DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.024
Corpus ID: 202794288

Newly Identified Nematodes from Mono Lake Exhibit Extreme Arsenic Resistance

@article{Shih2019NewlyIN,
  title={Newly Identified Nematodes from Mono Lake Exhibit Extreme Arsenic Resistance},
  author={Pei-Yin Shih and James Lee and R. Shinya and N. Kanzaki and A. Pires-daSilva and Jean M. Badroos and Elizabeth Goetz and A. Sapir and P. Sternberg},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2019},
  volume={29},
  pages={3339-3344.e4}
}

• Pei-Yin Shih, James Lee, +6 authors P. Sternberg
• Published 2019
• Medicine, Biology
• Current Biology

Extremophiles have much to reveal about the biology of resilience, yet their study is limited by sampling and culturing difficulties [1-3]. The broad success and small size of nematodes make them advantageous for tackling these problems [4-6]. We investigated the arsenic-rich, alkaline, and hypersaline Mono Lake (CA, US) [7-9] for extremophile nematodes. Though Mono Lake has previously been described to contain only two animal species (brine shrimp and alkali flies) in its water and sediments… Expand