Microorganisms metabolizing on clay grains 3-km-deep Greenland basal ice

Astrobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 69-86

  Tung, H C ^a   Price, P B ^b   Bramall, N E ^b   Vrdoljak, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clay grains; Electron shuttle; Fe reduction; Life in glacial ice; Methanogenesis; Microbial metabolism

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE; ICE; IRON; METHANE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CLAY; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GREENLAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXOBIOLOGY; GREENLAND; ICE; IRON; METHANE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOLAR SYSTEM; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HUMULUS LUPULUS; METHANOBACTERIALES;

EID: 33645831967     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.6.69     Document Type: Article

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