Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats

A Boetius, AM Anesio, JW Deming, JA Mikucki… - Nature Reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
The Earth's cryosphere comprises those regions that are cold enough for water to turn into
ice. Recent findings show that the icy realms of polar oceans, glaciers and ice sheets are …

The role of bacterial extracellular polymeric substances in geomicrobiology

J Tourney, BT Ngwenya - Chemical Geology, 2014 - Elsevier
The last two decades have seen geomicrobiology evolve into a broad field encompassing a
wide range of environmentally significant processes such as proton and metal adsorption …

Sea ice microorganisms: Environmental constraints and extracellular responses

M Ewert, JW Deming - Biology, 2013 - mdpi.com
Inherent to sea ice, like other high latitude environments, is the strong seasonality driven by
changes in insolation throughout the year. Sea-ice organisms are exposed to shifting …

Photobleaching of fluorescent dissolved organic matter in Beaufort Sea and North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre

PG Dainard, C Guéguen, N McDonald, WJ Williams - Marine chemistry, 2015 - Elsevier
Fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM) samples collected from water masses of
Beaufort Sea (n= 12) and the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre (NASG; n= 6) were assessed …

Optical and molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the Arctic ice core and the underlying seawater (Cambridge Bay, Canada): Implication for …

SR Brogi, SY Ha, K Kim, M Derrien, YK Lee… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sea ice contains a large amount of dissolved organic matter (DOM), which can be released
into the ocean once it melts. In this study, Arctic sea ice DOM was characterized for its optical …

Production and characterization of the intra‐and extracellular carbohydrates and polymeric substances (Eps) of three sea‐ice diatom species, and evidence for a …

SN Aslam, T Cresswell‐Maynard… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Diatoms and their associated extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) are major
constituents of the microalgal assemblages present within sea ice. Yields and chemical …

Methods for biogeochemical studies of sea ice: The state of the art, caveats, and recommendations

LA Miller, F Fripiat, BGT Else, JS Bowman, KA Brown… - …, 2015 - online.ucpress.edu
Over the past two decades, with recognition that the ocean's sea-ice cover is neither
insensitive to climate change nor a barrier to light and matter, research in sea-ice …

Bacterial diversity and co‐occurrence patterns differ across a world‐wide spatial distribution of habitats in glacier ecosystems

L Zhang, M Delgado‐Baquerizo, S Hotaling… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Glaciers cover nearly 10% of the Earth's surface and are unique biomes dominated by
microbial communities that support key ecosystem processes. The melting of glaciers is …

Sea ice, extremophiles and life on extra-terrestrial ocean worlds

A Martin, A McMinn - International Journal of Astrobiology, 2018 - cambridge.org
The primary aim of this review is to highlight that sea-ice microbes would be capable of
occupying ice-associated biological niches on Europa and Enceladus. These moons are …

Extracellular polymeric substances acting as a permeable barrier hinder the lateral transfer of antibiotic resistance genes

X Hu, F Kang, B Yang, W Zhang, C Qin… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in bacteria are emerging contaminants as their
proliferation in the environment poses significant threats to human health. It is well …