Microbial communities in the subglacial waters of the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland

ISME Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 427-437

  Marteinsson, Viggó Thór ^a   Rúnarsson, Árni ^a,g   Stefánsson, Andri ^b   Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn ^c   Jóhannesson, Tómas ^c   Magnússon, Sveinn H ^a   Reynisson, Eyjólfur ^a   Einarsson, Bergur ^c   Wade, Nicole ^d,h   Morrison, Hilary G ^e   Gaidos, Eric ^d,f  

^a Matis ohf Iceland   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c ICELANDIC METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE   (Iceland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

acetogenesis; astrobiology; extreme environments; psychrophiles; pyrosequencing; subglacial lakes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FRESH WATER; ICE; RNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; BASALT; BIOME; CHEMOAUTOTROPHY; COLONIZATION; DATA SET; ICE CAP; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ICELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LAKE; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FRESH WATER; GENE LIBRARY; ICE; ICELAND; LAKES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

ICELAND; VATNAJOKULL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84872935229     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2012.97     Document Type: Article

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