The Role and Regulation of Heat Shock Proteins in the Antarctic Alga Chlamydomonas priscuii

• Main Author: Vakulenko, Galyna
• Other Authors: Cvetkovska, Marina
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2022
• Subjects: Antarctica; green algae; climate change; heat shock protein; heat shock transcription factor; temperature stress; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Bonney; Lake Bonney; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/44225; https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-28438

Chlamydomonas priscuii is a psychrophilic green alga found 17 m below the permanently ice-covered surface of the Antarctic Lake Bonney, where it experiences a myriad of extreme environmental conditions, including low temperature, low light, and high salinity. While this habitat is extreme, it is als...