Antarctic subglacial lake exploration: a new frontier in microbial ecology

• Published in: The ISME Journal
• Main Author: Pearce, David A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2009
• Subjects: Glaciology; Biology and Microbiology; Ecology and Environment; Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Arctic; Pedersen; Rothschild; Skidmore; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/11174/; http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v3/n8/pdf/ismej200953a.pdf

To date, wherever life has been sought on Earth, it has almost always been found—from high in the stratosphere (Imshenetskii et al., 1975, 1978, 1986; Wainwright et al., 2003) to deep in the ocean trenches (Takamia et al., 1997; D'Hondt et al., 2004) and even within the Earth's crust itsel...