Comparison of Microbial Community Compositions of Two Subglacial Environments Reveals a Possible Role for Microbes in Chemical Weathering Processes

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Skidmore, Mark, Anderson, Suzanne P., Sharp, Martin, Foght, Julia, Lanoil, Brian D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2005
• Subjects: Geomicrobiology; Canada; Ellesmere Island; John Evans Glacier; Nunavut; glacier; glacier*; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1287656; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16269734; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.71.11.6986-6997.2005

Viable microbes have been detected beneath several geographically distant glaciers underlain by different lithologies, but comparisons of their microbial communities have not previously been made. This study compared the microbial community compositions of samples from two glaciers overlying differi...