Sulfur-cycling chemolithoautotrophic microbial community dominates a cold, anoxic, hypersaline Arctic spring
Abstract Background Gypsum Hill Spring, located in Nunavut in the Canadian High Arctic, is a rare example of a cold saline spring arising through thick permafrost. It perennially discharges cold (~ 7 °C), hypersaline (7–8% salinity), anoxic (~ 0.04 ppm O2), and highly reducing (~ − 430 mV) brines ri...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Microbiome |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01628-5 |