SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY FOR TERRAFORMATION Lessons from Mars, Earth and the microbiome

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Nuria Conde-Pueyo, 2, ∗ Blai Vidiella, 2 Josep Sardanyés, 4 Miguel Berdugo, Fernando Maestre, Victor de Lorenzo, and Ricard Solé 2, 7, † ICREA-Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, UPF-CSIC, Barcelona Centre de Recerca Matemàtica. Edifici C, Campus de Bellaterra 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics (BGSMath). Edifici C, Campus de Bellaterra 08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona Departamento de Ecologa and Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio Ramon Margalef, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain Systems and Synthetic Biology Program, Centro Nacional de Biotecnoloǵıa (CNB-CSIC), Campus de Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA