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Life In and Under the Antarctic Ice Sheets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Shawn Doyle*
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
Pierre Amato
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
Brent Christner
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University

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The discovery of viable microbial life in ancient glacial ice has opened up a plethora of questions related to how life can be sustained in such extreme environments. Cryo-microscopic analysis of lab prepared ice samples indicates that microbes are located in the small veins of water that exist between individual ice crystals. Crucial to these studies is to obtain an understanding of the physicochemical habitat for life through physiological and microscopic analysis.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2008