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Protein study finds clues to microbes' survival techniques When humans gather in communities, they specialize and adapt. Farmers grow crops and raise animals for food based on the area`s climate and soil. Builders fashion structures engineered to keep their inhabitants warm in winter and cool in summer. Physicians tend to the sick; police and firefighters protect the public.Communities of microorganisms, researchers are finding, exhibit very similar behavior - genetically evolving, specializing and cooperating in ways that allow them to adapt to extreme conditions of temperature, acidity, toxicity and pressure.
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