Article
Diversity and expression of RubisCO genes in a perennially ice-covered Antarctic lake during the polar night transition.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Jun 2012
Kong Weidong, Ream David C, Priscu John C, Morgan-Kiss Rachael M
Abstract excerpt
The autotrophic communities in the lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, have generated interest since the early 1960s owing to low light transmission through the permanent ice covers, a strongly bimodal seasonal light cycle, constant cold water temperatures, and geographical isolation. Previous work has shown that autotrophic carbon fixation in these lakes provides an important source of organic matter...
Topics
- Antarctic Regions
- Autotrophic Processes
- Chlorophyta
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Fungal
- Genetic Variation
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Ribulose-Bisphosphate Carboxylase
- Seasons