| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 307 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction / John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers -- Recommendations for elimination of contaminants and authentication of isolates in ancient ice cores / Scott O. Rogers [and others] -- Perennial Antarctic lake ice : a refuge for cyanobacteria in an extreme environment / John C. Priscu [and others] -- The growth of prokaryotes in Antarctic sea ice : implications for ancient ice communities / David S. Nichols -- Frozen in time : the diatom record in ice cores from remote drilling sites on the Antarctic ice sheets / Davida E. Kellogg and Thomas B. Kellogg -- The nature and likely sources of biogenic particles found in ancient ice from Antarctica / Raymond Sambrotto and Lloyd Burckle -- Microbial life below the freezing point within permafrost / Elizaveta Rivkina, Kayastas Laurinavichyus, and David A. Gilichinsky -- Yeasts isolated from ancient permafrost / Rushaniya N. Faizutdinova [and others] -- Fungi in ancient permafrost sediments of the Arctic and Antarctic regions / Nataliya E. Ivanushkina, Galina A. Kochkina, and Svetlana M. Ozerskaya -- Viable phototrophs : cyanobacteria and green algae from the permafrost darkness / Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya [and others] -- The significance and implications of the discovery of filamentous fungi in glacial ice / Li-Jun Ma [and others] -- Yeasts in the genus Rhodotorula recovered from the Greenland ice sheet / William T. Starmer [and others] -- Plant and bacterial viruses in the Greenland ice sheet / John D. Castello [and others] -- Viral pathogens of humans likely to be preserved in natural ice / Dany Shoham -- Classification of bacteria from polar and nonpolar glacial ice / Brent C. Christner [and others] -- Common features of microorganisms in ancient layers of the Antarctic ice sheet / S.S. Abyzov [and others] -- Comparative biological analyses of accretion ice from subglacial Lake Vostok / Robin Bell [and others] -- Search for microbes and biogenic compounds in polar ice using fluorescence / Ryan Bay, Nathan Bramall, and P. Buford Price -- Living cells in permafrost as models for astrobiology research / Elena A. Vorobyova [and others] -- A synopsis of the past, an evaluation of the current, and a glance toward the future / John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers |
| Summary |
"Life in Ancient Ice presents an unparalleled overview of current research into microbial life in ancient glacial ice and permafrost. Particulates of fungi, bacteria, pollen grains, protists, and viruses are carried by wind around the globe. When they fall to Earth in polar regions they may be trapped in ice for hundreds of millennia. Some of the many implications sound like science fiction - for example, might melting glaciers release ancient pathogens that yield modern-day pandemics? But rigorous, coordinated research is nascent. This book points the way forward |
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Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium organized by the editors in 2001, it comprises twenty chapters by internationally renowned scientists, including Russian experts whose decades of work has been rarely available in English."--Jacket |
| Notes |
Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium in 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Ice -- Microbiology.
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Microbiology -- Polar regions
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Paleontology.
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Ice Cover -- microbiology -- Congresses
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Paleontology -- Congresses
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Ice Cover -- microbiology
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Paleontology
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paleontology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biology.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Microbiology.
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Paleontology
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Ice -- Microbiology
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Microbiology
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Mikroorganismus
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Kryobiologie
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Paläobiologie
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Mikrofossil
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Eis.
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Polar regions
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Polargebiete
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Castello, John D., 1952-
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Rogers, Scott O., 1953-
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| LC no. |
2004050523 |
| ISBN |
9781400880188 |
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1400880181 |
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