Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, University of Tuscia, 01100 Viterbo, Italy.
Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico. Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Av. Reina Mercedes 10, E-41012, Sevilla, Spain; Unidad Asociada CSIC-UPO (BioFun). Universidad Pablo de Olavide, 41013 Sevilla, Spain.
Trends Microbiol. 2022 Nov;30(11):1101-1115. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.04.002. Epub 2022 May 11.
The possibility of life elsewhere in the universe has fascinated humankind for ages. To the best of our knowledge, life, as we know it, is limited to planet Earth; yet current investigation suggests that life might be more common than previously thought. In this review, we explore extreme terrestrial analogue environments in the search for some notable examples of extreme organisms, including overlooked microbial groups such as viruses, fungi, and protists, associated with limits of life on Earth. This knowledge is integral to provide the foundational principles needed to predict what sort of Earth-like organisms we might find in the Solar System and beyond, and to understand the future and origins of life on Earth.
宇宙中其他地方存在生命的可能性一直令人类着迷。据我们所知，我们所知道的生命仅限于地球；然而，目前的调查表明，生命可能比以前想象的更为普遍。在这篇综述中，我们探讨了极端的地球类似环境，以寻找一些极端生物的显著例子，包括与地球上生命极限相关的被忽视的微生物群体，如病毒、真菌和原生生物。这些知识对于提供预测我们在太阳系内外可能发现的类似地球的生物所需的基本原理，以及了解地球生命的未来和起源至关重要。
