Researchers:
Archana Chauhan, Alice C. Layton, Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Daniel Williams, Susan M. Pfiffner, Bhanu Rekepalli, Brandon Stackhouse, Maggie C. Y. Lau, Tommy J. Phelps, Nadia Mykytczuk, Jennifer Ronholm, Lyle Whyte, Tullis C. Onstott, Gary S. Sayler
Abstract:
Microbial release of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost is a global concern. Seventy-six metagenomes were generated from low-soil-organic-carbon mineral cryosols from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada, during a controlled thawing experiment. Permafrost thawing resulted in an increase in anaerobic fermenters and sulfate-reducing bacteria but not methanogens.
Citation:
Chauhan A, Layton AC, Vishnivetskaya TA, Williams D, Pfiffner SM, Rekepalli B, Stackhouse B, Lau MCY, Phelps TJ, Mykytczuk N, Ronholm J, Whyte L, Onstott TC, Sayler GS. 2014. Metagenomes from thawing low-soil-organic-carbon mineral cryosols and permafrost of the Canadian high Arctic. Genome Announcements 2:doi 10.1128/genomeA.01217-14.
