Protist diversity in a permanently ice-covered Antarctic Lake during the polar night transition

• Published in: The ISME Journal
• Main Authors: Bielewicz, Scott, Bell, Elanor, Kong, Weidong, Friedberg, Iddo, Priscu, John C, Morgan-Kiss, Rachael M
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2011
• Subjects: Short Communication; Antarctic; Bonney; Lake Bonney; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica; polar night
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160681; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21390078; https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2011.23

The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica harbor numerous permanently ice-covered lakes, which provide a year-round oasis for microbial life. Microbial eukaryotes in these lakes occupy a variety of trophic levels within the simple aquatic food web ranging from primary producers to tertiary predators. He...