Biodiversity and activity of microbial mat communities from Canadian high Arctic ice shelf ecosystems

• Main Author: Bottos, Eric.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: McGill University 2007
• Subjects: Microbial mats > Canada; Northern; Microbial diversity > Canada; Arctic; Canada; Markham; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves
• Online Access: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=100776

Microbial mats exist in freshwater pools atop the Ward Hunt and Markham ice shelves in the Canadian high Arctic. In this study, culture-dependent and culture-independent techniques were used to describe the microbial diversity and activity of these mat communities.Bacterial and archaeal 16S rRNA gen...