Architecture of thermal adaptation in an Exiguobacterium sibiricum strain isolated from 3 million year old permafrost: A genome and transcriptome approach

Debora F Rodrigues¹ , Natalia Ivanova² , Zhili He³ , Marianne Huebner⁴ , Jizhong Zhou³ and James M Tiedje¹

¹  Michigan State University, NASA Astrobiology Institute and Center for Microbial Ecology, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

²  DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA 94598-1604, USA

³  Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

⁴  Michigan State University, Department of Statistics and Probability, East Lansing, MI, USA