Biodiversity of Methanogenic and Other Archaea in the Permanently Frozen Lake Fryxell, Antarctica

Archaea were detected in molecular diversity studies of the permanently frozen Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Two clusters of methanogens were detected in the sediments, and another cluster of possibly methanotrophic Euryarchaeota was detected in the anoxic water column just above the sediments. One cren...

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Published in:Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Main Authors: Karr, Elizabeth A., Ng, Joshua M., Belchik, Sara M., Sattley, W. Matthew, Madigan, Michael T., Achenbach, Laurie A.
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2006
Subjects:
Microbial Ecology
Fryxell
Lake Fryxell
Frozen Lake
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1392947
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16461723
https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.72.2.1663-1666.2006
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Summary:Archaea were detected in molecular diversity studies of the permanently frozen Lake Fryxell, Antarctica. Two clusters of methanogens were detected in the sediments, and another cluster of possibly methanotrophic Euryarchaeota was detected in the anoxic water column just above the sediments. One crenarchaeote was detected in water just below the oxycline. The Archaea present in Lake Fryxell are likely involved in the major biogeochemical cycles that occur there.

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