Biomarker Profiling of Microbial Mats in the Geothermal Band of Cerro Caliente, Deception Island (Antarctica): Life at the Edge of Heat and Cold

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Lezcano, María Ángeles, Moreno-Paz, Mercedes, Carrizo, Daniel, Prieto-Ballesteros, Olga, Fernández-Martínez, Miguel Ángel, Sánchez-García, Laura, Blanco, Yolanda, Puente-Sánchez, Fernando, de Diego-Castilla, Graciela, García-Villadangos, Miriam, Fairén, Alberto G., Parro, Víctor
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2019
• Subjects: Research Articles; Antarctic; Caliente Hill; Calvin; Deception Island; South Shetland Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6918857/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31339746; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.2004

Substrate–atmosphere interfaces in Antarctic geothermal environments are hot–cold regions that constitute thin habitable niches for microorganisms with possible counterparts in ancient Mars. Cerro Caliente hill in Deception Island (active volcano in the South Shetland Islands) is affected by ascendi...