Diversity and Distribution of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Permanently Frozen Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Karr, Elizabeth A., Sattley, W. Matthew, Rice, Melissa R., Jung, Deborah O., Madigan, Michael T., Achenbach, Laurie A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2005
• Subjects: Microbial Ecology; Frozen Lake; Fryxell; Lake Fryxell; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1265979; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16204557; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.10.6353-6359.2005

The permanently frozen freshwater Lake Fryxell, located in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, exhibits an ideal geochemistry for microbial sulfate reduction. To investigate the population of sulfate-reducing bacteria in Lake Fryxell, both 16S rRNA gene and metabolic primer sets targeting the dsrA gene f...