Biological Characterization of Microenvironments in a Hypersaline Cold Spring Mars Analog

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Haley M. Sapers, Jennifer Ronholm, Isabelle Raymond-Bouchard, Raven Comrey, Gordon R. Osinski, Lyle G. Whyte
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
• Subjects: cold spring; Mars analog; permafrost; phsycrophile; microbial ecology; Microbiology; QR1-502; Arctic; Heiberg; Axel Heiberg Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02527; https://doaj.org/article/b0b04e1e24574d34973cc749336eeb96

While many habitable niches on Earth are characterized by permanently cold conditions, little is known about the spatial structure of seasonal communities and the importance of substrate-cell associations in terrestrial cyroenvironments. Here we use the 16S rRNA gene as a marker for genetic diversit...