Brine assemblages of ultrasmall microbial cells within the ice cover of Lake Vida, Antarctica

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Kuhn, Emanuele, Ichimura, Andrew S., Peng, Vivian, Fritsen, Christian H., Trubl, Gareth, Doran, Peter T., Murray, Alison E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: LSU Digital Commons 2014
• Subjects: Lake Vida; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/geo_pubs/616; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00276-14; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/context/geo_pubs/article/1615/viewcontent/616.pdf

The anoxic and freezing brine that permeates Lake Vida's perennial ice below 16mcontains an abundance of very small (≤0.2-μm) particles mixed with a less abundant population of microbial cells ranging from>0.2 to 1.5 μmin length. Fluorescent DNA staining, electron microscopy (EM) observation...