Metagenomic and satellite analyses of red snow in the Russian Arctic

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Hisakawa, Nao, Quistad, Steven D., Hester, Eric R., Martynova, Daria, Maughan, Heather, Sala, Enric, Gavrilo, Maria V., Rohwer, Forest
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2015
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Arctic; Franz Josef Land; albedo
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690372/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26713242; https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1491

Cryophilic algae thrive in liquid water within snow and ice in alpine and polar regions worldwide. Blooms of these algae lower albedo (reflection of sunlight), thereby altering melting patterns (Kohshima, Seko & Yoshimura, 1993; Lutz et al., 2014; Thomas & Duval, 1995). Here metagenomic DNA...