Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) Accretion Ice Contains a Diverse Set of Sequences from Aquatic, Marine and Sediment-Inhabiting Bacteria and Eukarya

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Shtarkman, Yury M., Koçer, Zeynep A., Edgar, Robyn, Veerapaneni, Ram S., D’Elia, Tom, Morris, Paul F., Rogers, Scott O.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; Lake Vostok; Antarc*; Antarctica; ice core
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3700977; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23843994; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067221

Lake Vostok, the 7th largest (by volume) and 4th deepest lake on Earth, is covered by more than 3,700 m of ice, making it the largest subglacial lake known. The combination of cold, heat (from possible hydrothermal activity), pressure (from the overriding glacier), limited nutrients and complete dar...