Shih Patrick M
Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis St, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA; Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, One Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
Curr Biol. 2015 Oct 5;25(19):R855-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.04.046.
Life has been built on the evolution and innovation of microbial metabolisms. Even with our scant understanding of the full diversity of microbial life, it is clear that microbes have become integral components of the biogeochemical cycles that drive our planet. The antiquity of life further suggests that various microbial metabolisms have been core and essential to global elemental cycling for a majority of Earth's history.
生命是建立在微生物代谢的进化与创新之上的。即便我们对微生物生命的全部多样性了解甚少，但很明显，微生物已成为驱动我们星球的生物地球化学循环中不可或缺的组成部分。生命的古老性进一步表明，在地球历史的大部分时间里，各种微生物代谢对于全球元素循环而言一直都是核心且至关重要的。
