Prospects for metazoan life in sub-glacial Antarctic lakes: the most extreme life on Earth?

• Published in: International Journal of Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Thatje, Sven, Brown, Alastair, Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
• Subjects: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Space and Planetary Science; Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous); Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Antarctic; Lake Vostok; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1473550418000356; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1473550418000356

Abstract About 400 subglacial lakes are known from Antarctica. The question of whether life unique of subglacial lakes exists has been paramount since their discovery. Despite frequent evidence of microbial life mostly from accretion ice, subglacial lakes are characterized by physiologically hostile...