Biomarker Profiling of Microbial Mats in the Geothermal Band of Cerro Caliente, Deception Island (Antarctica): Life at the Edge of Heat and Cold

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Lezcano, M. A., Moreno-Paz, Mercedes, Carrizo, Daniel, Prieto-Ballesteros, Olga, Fernández-Martínez, M.A., Sánchez-García, Laura, Blanco, Yolanda, Puente-Sánchez, Fernando, Diego-Castilla, Graciela de, García-Villadangos, Miriam, Fairén, Alberto G., Parro-García, Víctor
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Research Council, European Commission, Comunidad de Madrid
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert 2019
• Subjects: Deception Island; Cerro Caliente; Geothermal; Microbial mat structure; Microbial metabolism; Biomarkers; Antarctic; Caliente Hill; Calvin; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/240062; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.2004; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000781; https://doi.org/10.13039/100012818; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329

© María Ángeles Lezcano et al. 2019. Substrate–atmosphere interfaces in Antarctic geothermal environments are hot–cold regions that constitute thin habitable niches for microorganisms with possible counterparts in ancient Mars. Cerro Caliente hill in Deception Island (active volcano in the South She...