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 Info | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, |
| Description | xviii, 307 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR eBooks |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium in 2001. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004050523 |
| ISBN | 0691074755 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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