Cold-Active, Heterotrophic Bacteria from the Highly Oligotrophic Waters of Lake Vanda, Antarctica

• Published in: Microorganisms
• Main Authors: Nicole Vander Schaaf, Anna Cunningham, Brandon Cluff, CodyJo Kraemer, Chelsea Reeves, Carli Riester, Lauren Slater, Michael Madigan, W. Sattley
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2015
• Subjects: Antarctica; Lake Vanda; McMurdo Dry Valleys; psychrotolerant; halotolerant; Vanda; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms3030391

The permanently ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica are distinctive ecosystems that consist strictly of microbial communities. In this study, water samples were collected from Lake Vanda, a stratified Dry Valley lake whose upper waters (from just below the ice cover to nearly 60...