Prokaryotic diversity of arctic ice shelf microbial mats

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Bottos, Eric M., Vincent, Warwick F., Greer, Charles W., Whyte, Lyle G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Arctic; Markham; Ward Hunt Ice Shelf; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Markham Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01516.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1462-2920.2007.01516.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01516.x/fullpdf

Summary The prokaryotic diversity and respiratory activity of microbial mat communities on the Markham Ice Shelf and Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in the Canadian high Arctic were analysed. All heterotrophic isolates and > 95% of bacterial 16S rRNA gene clone library sequences from both ice shelves grouped...