In Situ Field Sequencing and Life Detection in Remote (79°26′N) Canadian High Arctic Permafrost Ice Wedge Microbial Communities

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: J. Goordial, Ianina Altshuler, Katherine Hindson, Kelly Chan-Yam, Evangelos Marcolefas, Lyle G. Whyte
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
• Subjects: life detection; astrobiology; nanopore MinION; polar microbiology; permafrost; Microbiology; QR1-502; Arctic; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island; Ice; wedge*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02594; https://doaj.org/article/13c71da1aeed48d2b8703d5a53a19412

Significant progress is being made in the development of the next generation of low cost life detection instrumentation with much smaller size, mass and energy requirements. Here, we describe in situ life detection and sequencing in the field in soils over laying ice wedges in polygonal permafrost t...