Isolation and description of a globally distributed cryosphere cyanobacterium from Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Ji Won Hong, Sung Hong Kim, Han-Gu Choi, Sung-Ho Kang, Ho-Sung Yoon
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2013
• Subjects: Barton Peninsular; cryosphere cyanobacteria; King George Island; uncultured Oscillatoria species; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Oceanography; GC1-1581; Barton; Barton Peninsula; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Research
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v32i0.18529; https://doaj.org/article/d20bfdbe626c4d5c81cc93fc186a60e5

A previously uncultured cyanobacterium, strain KNUA009, was axenically isolated from a meltwater stream on Barton Peninsula, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Molecular evidences showed that the isolate belongs to groups of globally distributed cryosphere cyanobacterial clones...