Isolation of nucleic acids and cultures from fossil ice and permafrost

E Willerslev, AJ Hansen, HN Poinar - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2004 - cell.com
Owing to their constant low temperatures, glacial ice and permafrost might contain the oldest
nucleic acids and microbial cells on Earth, which could prove key to reconstructing past …

Marine fungal biotechnology: an ecological perspective

C Raghukumar - 2008 - drs.nio.res.in
This paper reviews the potential of marine fungi in biotechnology. The unique physico-
chemical properties of the marine environment are likely to have conferred marine fungi with …

Glacier ice archives nearly 15,000-year-old microbes and phages

ZP Zhong, F Tian, S Roux, MC Gazitúa, NE Solonenko… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background Glacier ice archives information, including microbiology, that helps reveal
paleoclimate histories and predict future climate change. Though glacier-ice microbes are …

Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology

M Legendre, J Bartoli, L Shmakova… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
The largest known DNA viruses infect Acanthamoeba and belong to two markedly different
families. The Megaviridae exhibit pseudo-icosahedral virions up to 0.7 μm in diameter and …

[图书][B] Plant virology

R Hull - 2013 - books.google.com
The seminal text Plant Virology is now in its fifth edition. It has been 10 years since the
publication of the fourth edition, during which there has been an explosion of conceptual …

Permafrost as a potential pathogen reservoir

R Wu, G Trubl, N Taş, JK Jansson - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
The Arctic is currently warming at unprecedented rates because of global climate change,
resulting in thawing of large tracts of permafrost soil. A great challenge is understanding the …

[图书][B] Global warming and the political ecology of health: Emerging crises and systemic solutions

H Baer, M Singer - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and
human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of …

Preservation of viral genomes in 700-y-old caribou feces from a subarctic ice patch

TFF Ng, LF Chen, Y Zhou, B Shapiro… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Viruses preserved in ancient materials provide snapshots of past viral diversity and a means
to trace viral evolution through time. Here, we use a metagenomics approach to identify …

Earth's icy biosphere

JC Priscu, BC Christner - Microbial diversity and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of Earthly ice‐bound microbes are relevant to the evolution and persistence of life
on extraterrestrial bodies. Great diversity of icy environments make up Earth's cold …

Historical RNA expression profiles from the extinct Tasmanian tiger

E Mármol-Sánchez, B Fromm, N Oskolkov… - Genome …, 2023 - genome.cshlp.org
Paleogenomics continues to yield valuable insights into the evolution, population dynamics,
and ecology of our ancestors and other extinct species. However, DNA sequencing cannot …