Bacterial Diversity Associated with Blood Falls, a Subglacial Outflow from the Taylor Glacier, Antarctica▿

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Mikucki, Jill A., Priscu, John C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2007
• Subjects: Environmental Microbiology; Blood Falls; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1932727; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17468282; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01396-06

Blood Falls is the surface manifestation of brine released from below the Taylor Glacier, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica. Geochemical analyses of Blood Falls show that this brine is of a marine origin. The discovery that 74% of clones and isolates from Blood Falls share high 16S rRNA gene sequence...