Frozen Zoo: a collection of permafrost samples containing viable protists and their viruses
International audience Permafrost, frozen ground cemented with ice, occupies about a quarter of the Earth’s hard surface and reaches up to 1000 metres depth. Due to constant subzero temperatures, permafrost represents a unique record of past epochs, whenever it comes to accumulated methane, oxygen i...
Published in: | Biodiversity Data Journal |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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HAL CCSD
2020
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Online Access: | https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02899363 https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02899363/document https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02899363/file/BDJ_article_51586.pdf https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.8.e51586 |
Summary: | International audience Permafrost, frozen ground cemented with ice, occupies about a quarter of the Earth’s hard surface and reaches up to 1000 metres depth. Due to constant subzero temperatures, permafrost represents a unique record of past epochs, whenever it comes to accumulated methane, oxygen isotope ratio or stored mummies of animals. Permafrost is also a unique environment where cryptobiotic stages of different microorganisms are trapped and stored alive for up to hundreds of thousands of years. Several protist strains and two giant protist viruses isolated from permafrost cores have been already described |
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