Prospects for metazoan life in sub-glacial Antarctic lakes: the most extreme life on Earth?

About 400 subglacial lakes are known from Antarctica. The question of whether life unique of subglacial lakes exists has been paramount since their discovery. Despite frequent evidence of microbial life mostly from accretion ice, subglacial lakes are characterized by physiologically hostile conditio...

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Main Authors: Thatje, Sven, Brown, Alastair, Hillenbrand, Claus-dieter
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/430141/