Microbial Diversity and Its Relationship to Physicochemical Characteristics of the Water in Two Extreme Acidic Pit Lakes from the Iberian Pyrite Belt (SW Spain)

• Esther Santofimia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Esther Santofimia, Elena González-Toril

  Affiliation Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain

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• Elena González-Toril ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Esther Santofimia, Elena González-Toril

  Affiliation Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain

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• Enrique López-Pamo,

  Affiliation Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Madrid, Spain

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• María Gomariz,

  Affiliation Departamento de Fisiología, Genética y Microbiología, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

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• Ricardo Amils,

  Affiliations Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain

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• Ángeles Aguilera

  * E-mail: aguileraba@cab.inta-csic.es

  Affiliation Centro de Astrobiología, Madrid, Spain

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