Microbes in High Arctic Snow and Implications for the Cold Biosphere ▿ †

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Harding, Tommy, Jungblut, Anne D., Lovejoy, Connie, Vincent, Warwick F.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2011
• Subjects: Environmental Microbiology; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Ellesmere Island; Cornwallis; Ward Hunt Island; Cornwallis Island; Hunt Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; permafrost; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3126466; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21460114; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02611-10

We applied molecular, microscopic, and culture techniques to characterize the microbial communities in snow and air at remote sites in the Canadian High Arctic (Ward Hunt Island, Ellesmere Island, and Cornwallis Island, latitudes 74 to 83oN). Members of the Bacteria and Eukarya were prevalent in the...