Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats

A Unique Capsular Polysaccharide Structure from the Psychrophilic Marine Bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H That Mimics Antifreeze (Glyco)proteins

(2015) Sara Carillo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Deep groundwater and potential subsurface habitats beneath an Antarctic dry valley

(2015) J. A. Mikucki et al.   Nature Communications

Stable microbial community composition on the Greenland Ice Sheet

(2015) Michaela Musilova et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Analysis of virus genomes from glacial environments reveals novel virus groups with unusual host interactions

(2015) Christopher M. Bellas et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial sulfur transformations in sediments from Subglacial Lake Whillans

(2015) Alicia M. Purcell et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemolithotrophic Primary Production in a Subglacial Ecosystem

(2014) Eric S. Boyd et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Antarctic sea-ice microbial communities show distinct patterns of zonation in response to algal-derived substrates

(2014) ROM Cowie et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Bacterial diversity in snow on North Pole ice floes

(2014) Aviaja L. Hauptmann et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Hyperactive antifreeze protein from an Antarctic sea ice bacteriumColwelliasp. has a compound ice-binding site without repetitive sequences

(2014) Yuichi Hanada et al.   FEBS Journal

Bacterial responses to fluctuations and extremes in temperature and brine salinity at the surface of Arctic winter sea ice

(2014) Marcela Ewert et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Variations of algal communities cause darkening of a Greenland glacier

(2014) Stefanie Lutz et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Coupled cryoconite ecosystem structure-function relationships are revealed by comparing bacterial communities in alpine and Arctic glaciers

(2014) Arwyn Edwards et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The genetic potential for key biogeochemical processes in Arctic frost flowers and young sea ice revealed by metagenomic analysis

(2014) Jeff S. Bowman et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Distinct bacterial assemblages reside at different depths in Arctic multiyear sea ice

(2014) Ido Hatam et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Extensive Gene Acquisition in the Extremely Psychrophilic Bacterial Species Psychroflexus torquis and the Link to Sea-Ice Ecosystem Specialism

(2014) Shi Feng et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011

(2014) E. Rignot et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Molecular and biogeochemical evidence for methane cycling beneath the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet

(2014) Markus Dieser et al.   ISME Journal

Diatom vertical migration within land-fast Arctic sea ice

(2014) C.F. Aumack et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Biological- and physical-induced oxygen dynamics in melting sea ice of the Fram Strait

(2014) Ronnie N. Glud et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

A microbial ecosystem beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet

(2014) Brent C. Christner et al.   NATURE

The microbial ecology of permafrost

(2014) Janet K. Jansson et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Communities of Surface Mixed Layer in the Pacific Sector of the Western Arctic Ocean during Sea-Ice Melting

(2014) Dukki Han et al.   PLoS One

Snow Surface Microbiome on the High Antarctic Plateau (DOME C)

(2014) Luigi Michaud et al.   PLoS One

Composition, Buoyancy Regulation and Fate of Ice Algal Aggregates in the Central Arctic Ocean

(2014) Mar Fernández-Méndez et al.   PLoS One

Ice sheets as a significant source of highly reactive nanoparticulate iron to the oceans

(2014) Jon R. Hawkings et al.   Nature Communications

IceMole: a maneuverable probe for clean in situ analysis and sampling of subsurface ice and subglacial aquatic ecosystems

(2014) Bernd Dachwald et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Potential drivers of microbial community structure and function in Arctic spring snow

(2014) Lorrie Maccario et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial community dynamics and activity in relation to dissolved organic matter availability during sea-ice formation in a mesocosm experiment

(2014) Eeva Eronen-Rasimus et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

Frost flowers on young Arctic sea ice: The climatic, chemical, and microbial significance of an emerging ice type

(2014) D. G. Barber et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Sea Ice Ecosystems

(2013) Kevin R. Arrigo   Annual Review of Marine Science

A microbiologically clean strategy for access to the Whillans Ice Stream subglacial environment

(2013) John C. Priscu et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

The potential role of the Antarctic Ice Sheet in global biogeochemical cycles

(2013) J. L. Wadham et al.   Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Viral impacts on bacterial communities in Arctic cryoconite

(2013) Christopher M Bellas et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Microbial nitrogen cycling in Arctic snowpacks

(2013) Catherine Larose et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Seasonal and altitudinal variations in snow algal communities on an Alaskan glacier (Gulkana glacier in the Alaska range)

(2013) Nozomu Takeuchi   Environmental Research Letters

A metagenomic snapshot of taxonomic and functional diversity in an alpine glacier cryoconite ecosystem

(2013) Arwyn Edwards et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Diversity, cold active enzymes and adaptation strategies of bacteria inhabiting glacier cryoconite holes of High Arctic

(2013) Purnima Singh et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

An inter-order horizontal gene transfer event enables the catabolism of compatible solutes by Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H

(2013) R. Eric Collins et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Review: the Antarctic Chlamydomonas raudensis: an emerging model for cold adaptation of photosynthesis

(2013) Jenna M. Dolhi et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Organic carbon export from the Greenland ice sheet

(2013) Maya P. Bhatia et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Molecular evidence for an active endogenous microbiome beneath glacial ice

(2013) Trinity L Hamilton et al.   ISME Journal

The dynamic bacterial communities of a melting High Arctic glacier snowpack

(2013) Katherina Hell et al.   ISME Journal

Subglacial Lake Vostok (Antarctica) Accretion Ice Contains a Diverse Set of Sequences from Aquatic, Marine and Sediment-Inhabiting Bacteria and Eukarya

(2013) Yury M. Shtarkman et al.   PLoS One

Floating Ice-Algal Aggregates below Melting Arctic Sea Ice

(2013) Philipp Assmy et al.   PLoS One

High level of intergenera gene exchange shapes the evolution of haloarchaea in an isolated Antarctic lake

(2013) M. Z. DeMaere et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Broad-scale predictability of carbohydrates and exopolymers in Antarctic and Arctic sea ice

(2013) G. J. C. Underwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Export of Algal Biomass from the Melting Arctic Sea Ice

(2013) A. Boetius et al.   SCIENCE

Selective occurrence ofRhizobialesin frost flowers on the surface of young sea ice near Barrow, Alaska and distribution in the polar marine rare biosphere

(2013) J. S. Bowman et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Bacterial and extracellular polysaccharide content of brine-wetted snow over Arctic winter first-year sea ice

(2013) M. Ewert et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

The Disappearing Cryosphere: Impacts and Ecosystem Responses to Rapid Cryosphere Loss

(2012) Andrew G. Fountain et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Iron from melting glaciers fuels phytoplankton blooms in the Amundsen Sea (Southern Ocean): Phytoplankton characteristics and productivity

(2012) Anne-Carlijn Alderkamp et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial cell budgets of an Arctic glacier surface quantified using flow cytometry

(2012) T. D. L. Irvine-Fynn et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic analysis of cold-active Colwelliaphage 9A and psychrophilic phage–host interactions

(2012) Jesse R. Colangelo-Lillis et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Prokaryotic diversity in sediments beneath two polar glaciers with contrasting organic carbon substrates

(2012) Marek Stibal et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Comparison of cryoconite organic matter composition from Arctic and Antarctic glaciers at the molecular-level

(2012) Brent G. Pautler et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Photophysiology and albedo-changing potential of the ice algal community on the surface of the Greenland ice sheet

(2012) Marian L Yallop et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial communities in the subglacial waters of the Vatnajökull ice cap, Iceland

(2012) Viggó Thór Marteinsson et al.   ISME Journal

Production and Characterization of the Intra- and Extracellular Carbohydrates and Polymeric Substances (EPS) of Three Sea-Ice Diatom Species, and Evidence for a Cryoprotective Role for EPS

(2012) Shazia N. Aslam et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Protists in Arctic drift and land-fast sea ice

(2012) André M. Comeau et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Potential methane reservoirs beneath Antarctica

(2012) J. L. Wadham et al.   NATURE

Biological processes on glacier and ice sheet surfaces

(2012) Marek Stibal et al.   Nature Geoscience

Massive Phytoplankton Blooms Under Arctic Sea Ice

(2012) K. R. Arrigo et al.   SCIENCE

Archaeal diversity revealed in Antarctic sea ice

(2011) Rebecca O.M. Cowie et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Diversity, Abundance, and Potential Activity of Nitrifying and Nitrate-Reducing Microbial Assemblages in a Subglacial Ecosystem

(2011) Eric S. Boyd et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of an antifreeze protein from the polar diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus and its relevance in sea ice

(2011) Maddalena Bayer-Giraldi et al.   CRYOBIOLOGY

Microbial community structure of Arctic multiyear sea ice and surface seawater by 454 sequencing of the 16S RNA gene

(2011) Jeff S Bowman et al.   ISME Journal

Nitrogen fixation on Arctic glaciers, Svalbard

(2011) Jon Telling et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Entry approach into pristine ice-sealed lakes-Lake Vida, East Antarctica, a model ecosystem

(2011) Peter T. Doran et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS

Metagenomic analysis of a permafrost microbial community reveals a rapid response to thaw

(2011) Rachel Mackelprang et al.   NATURE

Stronger ocean circulation and increased melting under Pine Island Glacier ice shelf

(2011) Stanley S. Jacobs et al.   Nature Geoscience

Abundant dissolved genetic material in Arctic sea ice Part II: Viral dynamics during autumn freeze-up

(2011) R. Eric Collins et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Dissolved extracellular polymeric substances (dEPS) dynamics and bacterial growth during sea ice formation in an ice tank study

(2011) Shazia N. Aslam et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Antarctic sea ice viral dynamics over an annual cycle

(2011) Harriet Paterson et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Exopolymer alteration of physical properties of sea ice and implications for ice habitability and biogeochemistry in a warmer Arctic

(2011) Christopher Krembs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Glaciers and ice sheets as a biome

(2011) Alexandre M. Anesio et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Selective retention in saline ice of extracellular polysaccharides produced by the cold-adapted marine bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H

(2011) Marcela Ewert et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

The structure of bacterial communities in the western Arctic Ocean as revealed by pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes

(2010) David L. Kirchman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Persistence of bacterial and archaeal communities in sea ice through an Arctic winter

(2010) R. Eric Collins et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Elevated bacterial abundance and exopolymers in saline frost flowers and implications for atmospheric chemistry and microbial dispersal

(2010) J. S. Bowman et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Effect of ice melting on bacterial carbon fluxes channelled by viruses and protists in the Arctic Ocean

(2010) Julia A. Boras et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Are low temperature habitats hot spots of microbial evolution driven by viruses?

(2010) Alexandre M. Anesio et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Methanogenesis in subglacial sediments

(2010) Eric S. Boyd et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Potential Revealed in a Glacier Ice Metagenome

(2009) C. Simon et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Production of cryoprotectant extracellular polysaccharide substances (EPS) by the marine psychrophilic bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea strain 34H under extreme conditionsThis article is one of a selection of papers in the Special Issue on Polar and Alpine Microbiology.

(2009) Joseph G. Marx et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Comparison of the microbial diversity at different depths of the GISP2 Greenland ice core in relationship to deposition climates

(2009) Vanya Miteva et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Novel ultramicrobacterial isolates from a deep Greenland ice core represent a proposed new species, Chryseobacterium greenlandense sp. nov.

(2009) Jennifer Loveland-Curtze et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

High microbial activity on glaciers: importance to the global carbon cycle

(2009) ALEXANDRE M. ANESIO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global distribution of cyanobacterial ecotypes in the cold biosphere

(2009) Anne D Jungblut et al.   ISME Journal

Glaciers as a source of ancient and labile organic matter to the marine environment

(2009) Eran Hood et al.   NATURE

A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous "Ocean"

(2009) J. A. Mikucki et al.   SCIENCE

High Diversity of the Viral Community from an Antarctic Lake

(2009) A. Lopez-Bueno et al.   SCIENCE

Exopolymer particles: microbial hotspots of enhanced bacterial activity in Arctic fast ice (Chukchi Sea)

(2008) K Meiners et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(2008) Andy Hodson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Bacteria beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

(2008) Brian Lanoil et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Subglacial methanogenesis: A potential climatic amplifier?

(2008) J. L. Wadham et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Ubiquity of Biological Ice Nucleators in Snowfall

(2008) B. C. Christner et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics of particles, bacteria, and pEPS in Arctic winter sea ice

(2007) R. Eric Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS