Ecology of Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica), Based on Metagenomic/Metatranscriptomic Analyses of Accretion Ice

• Published in: Biology
• Main Authors: Tom D'Elia, Robyn Edgar, Ram Veerapaneni, Zeynep A. Koçer, Scott O. Rogers, Yury M. Shtarkman
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2013
• Subjects: Lake Vostok; subglacial lake; metagenomic; metatranscriptomic; marine; aquatic; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Antarctic; Vostok Subglacial Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology2020629; https://doaj.org/article/f259ffab26694fc7a9aca712793ac007

Lake Vostok is the largest of the nearly 400 subglacial Antarctic lakes and has been continuously buried by glacial ice for 15 million years. Extreme cold, heat (from possible hydrothermal activity), pressure (from the overriding glacier) and dissolved oxygen (delivered by melting meteoric ice), in...