A viable microbial community in a subglacial volcanic crater lake, Iceland

Astrobiology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 327-344

  Gaidos, Eric ^a   Lanoil, Brian ^b   Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn ^c   Graham, Andrew ^a   Skidmore, Mark ^b,d   Han, Suk Kyun ^b   Rust, Terri ^a   Popp, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme environments; Microbial ecology; Subglacial lakes

Indexed keywords

VISCUM ALBUM;

ACETYLENE; BICARBONATE; DNA; FRESH WATER; ICE; ION; NITROGEN; RNA 16S; SNOW;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENT; FREEZING; GENETICS; GEOLOGY; ICELAND; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESSURE; TIME;

ACETYLENE; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BICARBONATES; DNA; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENT; FREEZING; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGY; ICE; ICELAND; IONS; NITROGEN; PLANKTON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESSURE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SNOW; TIME FACTORS; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 14844361701     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2004.4.327     Document Type: Article

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