Pith Number

pith:OIX5WVEU

pith:2010:OIX5WVEUPCJBAN74MVA6DE6K5N

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Microbial Life in a Liquid Asphalt Desert

Denise M. Beckles, Denzil Ali, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Edward Guinan, Elena Zaikova, Harry J. Lehto, Jinshu Yang, Marina Resendes de Sousa Antonio, Riad Hosein, Shirin Haque, Steven J. Hallam, Young C. Song

arxiv:1004.2047 v2 · 2010-04-12 · q-bio.GN · physics.bio-ph · q-bio.PE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OIX5WVEUPCJBAN74MVA6DE6K5N}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T02:08:06.510120Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

722fdb549478921037fc6541e193caeb70bffbd543dbeafecf9e0eac607ab8c5

Aliases

arxiv: 1004.2047 · arxiv_version: 1004.2047v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1004.2047 · pith_short_12: OIX5WVEUPCJB · pith_short_16: OIX5WVEUPCJBAN74 · pith_short_8: OIX5WVEU

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/OIX5WVEUPCJBAN74MVA6DE6K5N \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 722fdb549478921037fc6541e193caeb70bffbd543dbeafecf9e0eac607ab8c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58444ff2a249f1be0f8bec9f4ab5ff0c84b3b90ad69c8a2a9c331cf019b61766",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.bio-ph",
      "q-bio.PE"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "q-bio.GN",
    "submitted_at": "2010-04-12T20:00:53Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11027619210ae9447907694c4d5e24b4e89e2147e8633f8b423aef5162974a12"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1004.2047",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}