Life in solid ice

Some microbes appear to be able to metabolize in glacial ice or permafrost. The rate depends on temperature, nutrient level, and bioelement availability, among other factors. I have developed a plausible argument that they do this while confined in veins filled with acidic or saline solution that pr...

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Main Author: Price, P. Buford
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2005
Subjects:
Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE
Cell Behavior q-bio.CB
FOS Biological sciences
Ice
permafrost
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0507004
https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0507004
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0507004 2023-05-15T16:37:06+02:00 Life in solid ice Price, P. Buford 2005 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0507004 https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0507004 unknown arXiv Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE Cell Behavior q-bio.CB FOS Biological sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2005 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0507004 2022-04-01T16:11:54Z Some microbes appear to be able to metabolize in glacial ice or permafrost. The rate depends on temperature, nutrient level, and bioelement availability, among other factors. I have developed a plausible argument that they do this while confined in veins filled with acidic or saline solution that provides nutrients and elements necessary for growth. Here I develop this scenario further and discuss some of its implications for ice-covered planetary bodies and for the the origin of life. An accompanying paper in the conference proceedings (Bay et al.) discusses plans to test this hypothesis using epifluorescence microscopy of pristine, unmelted ice samples and an optical biospectrologging tool to assay living and dead microbes in boreholes in glacial ice. : 21 pages, no figures, presented at Workshop on Life in Ancient Ice, June 30, 2001 Report Ice permafrost DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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topic Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE
Cell Behavior q-bio.CB
FOS Biological sciences
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Cell Behavior q-bio.CB
FOS Biological sciences
Price, P. Buford
Life in solid ice
topic_facet Populations and Evolution q-bio.PE
Cell Behavior q-bio.CB
FOS Biological sciences
description Some microbes appear to be able to metabolize in glacial ice or permafrost. The rate depends on temperature, nutrient level, and bioelement availability, among other factors. I have developed a plausible argument that they do this while confined in veins filled with acidic or saline solution that provides nutrients and elements necessary for growth. Here I develop this scenario further and discuss some of its implications for ice-covered planetary bodies and for the the origin of life. An accompanying paper in the conference proceedings (Bay et al.) discusses plans to test this hypothesis using epifluorescence microscopy of pristine, unmelted ice samples and an optical biospectrologging tool to assay living and dead microbes in boreholes in glacial ice. : 21 pages, no figures, presented at Workshop on Life in Ancient Ice, June 30, 2001
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title Life in solid ice
title_short Life in solid ice
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publishDate 2005
url https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.q-bio/0507004
https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0507004
genre Ice
permafrost
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permafrost
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http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/
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