New avenues for potentially seeking microbial responses to climate change beneath Antarctic ice shelves
M. Martinez-Garcia, A. Llorenc Vicedo, M. Lluesma-Gomez, O. Zeising, T. Kleiner, J. Freitag, F. Martinez-Hernandez, F. Wilhelms
This paper uses single-cell genomics and metagenomics to analyze 300-year-old microbial DNA from Antarctic ice cores, revealing evolutionary changes in marine microbes and highlighting the potential of ice cores for studying long-term microbial responses to climate change.
bioRxiv · Dec 13, 2023 · PreprintMicrobiology