Bacterial activity in South Pole snow

Large populations (200 to 5,000 cells ml21 in snowmelt) of bacteria were present in surface snow and firn from the south pole sampled in January 1999 and 2000. DNA isolated from this snow yielded ribosomal DNA sequences similar to those of several psychrophilic bacteria and a bacterium which aligns...

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Main Authors: Edward J. Carpenter, Senjie Lin, Douglas G. Capone
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2000
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.488.4406
http://www.phytoplankton.uconn.edu/publications/20.pdf