Brine Assemblages of Ultrasmall Microbial Cells within the Ice Cover of Lake Vida, Antarctica

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Kuhn, Emanuele, Ichimura, Andrew S., Peng, Vivian, Fritsen, Christian H., Trubl, Gareth, Doran, Peter T., Murray, Alison E.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014
• Subjects: Environmental Microbiology; Lake Vida; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4054151; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24727273; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00276-14

The anoxic and freezing brine that permeates Lake Vida's perennial ice below 16 m contains an abundance of very small (≤0.2-μm) particles mixed with a less abundant population of microbial cells ranging from >0.2 to 1.5 μm in length. Fluorescent DNA staining, electron microscopy (EM) observa...