Investigating eukaryotic and prokaryotic diversity and functional potential in the cold and alkaline ikaite columns in Greenland

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Thøgersen, Mariane Schmidt, Zervas, Athanasios, Stougaard, Peter, Ellegaard-Jensen, Lea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2024
• Subjects: Greenland; Ikka
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1358787; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2024.1358787/full

The ikaite columns in the Ikka Fjord, SW Greenland, represent a permanently cold and alkaline environment known to contain a rich bacterial diversity. 16S and 18S rRNA gene amplicon and metagenomic sequencing was used to investigate the microbial diversity in the columns and for the first time, the...