In natural extreme environments on Earth, microbial survival often relies on community-level properties like metabolic cooperation (syntrophy), biofilm formation, horizontal gene transfer, hibernation, and quorum sensing rather than individual robustness.

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• horizontal gene transfer concept
• biofilm formation concept