Metagenomes from Thawing Low-Soil-Organic-Carbon Mineral Cryosols and Permafrost of the Canadian High Arctic

• Published in: Genome Announcements
• Main Authors: Chauhan, Archana, Layton, Alice C., Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana A., Williams, Daniel, Pfiffner, Susan M., Rekepalli, Bhanu, Stackhouse, Brandon, Lau, Maggie C. Y., Phelps, Tommy J., Mykytczuk, Nadia, Ronholm, Jennifer, Whyte, Lyle, Onstott, Tullis C., Sayler, Gary S.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014
• Subjects: Prokaryotes; Arctic; Axel Heiberg Island; Canada; Heiberg; Nunavut; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4239366; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25414511; https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.01217-14

Microbial release of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost is a global concern. Seventy-six metagenomes were generated from low-soil-organic-carbon mineral cryosols from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, during a controlled thawing experiment. Permafrost thawing resulted in an increase in ana...