Search Results - "Kuhn, Emanuele"
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Microbial life at −13 °C in the brine of an ice-sealed Antarctic lake
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (11-12-2012)“…The permanent ice cover of Lake Vida (Antarctica) encapsulates an extreme cryogenic brine ecosystem (−13 °C; salinity, 200). This aphotic ecosystem is anoxic…”
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Brine assemblages of ultrasmall microbial cells within the ice cover of Lake Vida, Antarctica
Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (01-06-2014)“…The anoxic and freezing brine that permeates Lake Vida's perennial ice below 16 m contains an abundance of very small (≤0.2-μm) particles mixed with a less…”
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Aerobiology in High Latitudes: Evidence of Bacteria Acting as Tracer of Warm Air Mass Advection reaching Northern Antarctic Peninsula
Published in Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (01-01-2023)“…Despite the extent use of geochemical tracers to track warm air mass origin reaching the Antarctic continent, we present here evidences that microorganisms…”
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Toward understanding life under subzero conditions: the significance of exploring psychrophilic "cold-shock" proteins
Published in Astrobiology (01-11-2012)“…Understanding the behavior of proteins under freezing conditions is vital for detecting and locating extraterrestrial life in cold environments, such as those…”
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New alk genes detected in Antarctic marine sediments
Published in Environmental microbiology (01-03-2009)“…Alkane monooxygenases (Alk) are the key enzymes for alkane degradation. In order to understand the dispersion and diversity of alk genes in Antarctic marine…”
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Dimensions of Antarctic microbial life revealed through microscopic, cultivation-based, molecular phylogenetic and environmental genomic characterization
Published 01-01-2014“…Extreme cold temperatures have shaped Antarctic environments and the life that lives within them. Microorganisms affiliated with the three domains of life -…”
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Dimensions of Antarctic microbial life revealed through microscopic, cultivation-based, molecular phylogenetic and environmental genomic characterization
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