Life in ancient ice / edited by John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers.

Other author Castello, John D., 1952-
Other author Rogers, Scott O., 1953-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionxviii, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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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 ... [et al.] -- Perennial Antarctic lake ice : a refuge for cyanobacteria in an extreme environment / John C. Priscu ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- The significance and implications of the discovery of filamentous fungi in glacial ice / Li-Jun Ma ... [et al.] -- Yeasts in the genus Rhodotorula recovered from the Greenland ice sheet / William T. Starmer ... [et al.] -- Plant and bacterial viruses in the Greenland ice sheet / John D. Castello ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- Common features of microorganisms in ancient layers of the Antarctic ice sheet / S.S. Abyzov ... [et al.] -- Comparative biological analyses of accretion ice from subglacial Lake Vostok / Robin Bell ... [et al.] -- 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 ... [et al.] -- A synopsis of the past, an evaluation of the current, and a glance toward the future / John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers.
General noteBased on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium in 2001.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2004050523
ISBN0691074755 (cloth : acid-free paper)

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