Minimalist or maximalist? The life of a #microbe a mile underground
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-minimalist-maximalist-life-microbe-mile.html paper: https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.16543

Magdalena Osburn: "The deep subsurface #biosphere is enormous; it's just a vast amount of space... Many of the #microbes we found were either minimalist: ultra-streamlined with one job that it does very well alongside a close consortium of collaborators, or it can do a little bit of everything. These maximalists are ready for every resource that comes along."