Survival strategies of an anoxic microbial ecosystem in Lake Untersee, a potential analog for Enceladus

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Nicole Yasmin Wagner, Dale T. Andersen, Aria S. Hahn, Sarah Stewart Johnson
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Saturn; Untersee; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10876-8; https://doaj.org/article/adc743a9bf194c49ae60c040ac6033d2

Abstract Lake Untersee located in Eastern Antarctica, is a perennially ice-covered lake. At the bottom of its southern basin lies 20 m of anoxic, methane rich, stratified water, making it a good analog for Enceladus, a moon of Saturn. Here we present the first metagenomic study of this basin and det...