Global warming and the associated climate changes are predictable. They are enhanced by
burning of fossil fuels and the emission of huge amounts of CO 2 gas which resulted in …

Abstract Terminal Restriction Fragment (TRF) patterns, also known as Terminal Restriction
Fragment Length Polymorphisms (T-RFLP), are a recently introduced PCR-based tool for …

Bacteria have been found associated with a variety of ancient samples, however few studies
are generally accepted due to questions about sample quality and contamination. When …

Antarctic permafrost soils have not received as much geocryological and biological study as
has been devoted to the ice sheet, though the permafrost is more stable and older and …

The process of natural mummification is a rare and unique process from which little is known
about the resulting microbial community structure. In the present study, we characterized the …

This book provides a general survey of Geocryology, which is the study of frozen ground
called permafrost. Frozen ground is the product of cold climates as well as a variety of …

A growing body of evidence now supports the isolation of microorganisms from ancient
materials. However, questions about the stringency of extraction methods and the genetic …

Complex microbial communities remain poorly characterized despite their ubiquity and
importance to human and animal health, agriculture, and industry. Attempts to describe …

Global warming is one of the major challenges facing humanity. The increase in the Earth's
temperature and thawing of ancient ice release viable viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other …

A chemo-organotrophic, aerobic, facultatively anaerobic, non-motile strain, MWH-C5T,
isolated from the water column of the oligomesotrophic Lake Mondsee (Austria), was …