Microbial Diversity of Pinnacle and Conical Microbial Mats in the Perennially Ice-Covered Lake Untersee, East Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Greco, Carla, Andersen, Dale T., Hawes, Ian, Bowles, Alexander M. C., Yallop, Marian L., Barker, Gary, Jungblut, Anne D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
• Subjects: Microbiology; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Pinnacle; Untersee; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7759091/; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.607251

Antarctic perennially ice-covered lakes provide a stable low-disturbance environment where complex microbially mediated structures can grow. Lake Untersee, an ultra-oligotrophic lake in East Antarctica, has the lake floor covered in benthic microbial mat communities, where laminated organo-sedimenta...