Extrêmophile

vignette|upright=1.5|Une souche archéenne de Thermococcus gammatolerans est hyperthermophile et tolérante à une forte radioactivité. Elle vit dans les grands fonds, idéalement dans une eau salée, anoxique, légèrement acide et à . Un organisme est dit extrêmophile, ou extrémophile, lorsque ses conditions de vie normales sont mortelles pour la plupart des autres organismes : températures proches ou supérieures à (hyperthermophiles) ou inférieures à (psychrophiles), pressions exceptionnelles (barophiles des grands fonds marins), milieux très chargés en sel (halophiles), milieux très acides (acidophiles) ou hyper-alcalins (alcalophiles), milieux radioactifs ou anoxique (sans dioxygène) ou non-éclairé comme les endolithes. Beaucoup d’extrémophiles appartiennent au taxon des Archaea ou des Bactéries et bien qu'il existe aussi des extrémophiles eucaryotes unicellulaires et métazoaires, (insectes, crustacés, poissons…), on réserve toutefois l'usage de ce terme pour les organismes unicellu

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