ArticleBiology2013
Sea ice microorganisms: environmental constraints and extracellular responses.
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- Microbial biogeography along a 2578 km transect on the East Antarctic Plateau.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Multiple roles of DNA methylation in sea-ice bacterial communities and associated viruses.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Molecular Biology Applications of Psychrophilic Enzymes: Adaptations, Advantages, Expression, and Prospective.Applied biochemistry and biotechnology · 2024Review
- Nitrogen and sulfur metabolisms encoded in prokaryotic communities associated with sea ice algae.ISME communications · 2023Article
- Microbial metabolomic responses to changes in temperature and salinity along the western Antarctic Peninsula.The ISME journal · 2023Article
- Lower viral evolutionary pressure under stable versus fluctuating conditions in subzero Arctic brines.Microbiome · 2023Article
- Marine biofilms: diversity, interactions and biofouling.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
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- Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities.Ambio · 2022Article
- Cold Adaptation Strategies and the Potential of Psychrophilic Enzymes from the Antarctic Yeast,Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Divergent Genomic Adaptations in the Microbiomes of Arctic Subzero Sea-Ice and Cryopeg Brines.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- The Variety and Inscrutability of Polar Environments as a Resource of Biotechnologically Relevant Molecules.Microorganisms · 2020Review
- Limited Response of Indigenous Microbes to Water and Nutrient Pulses in High-Elevation Atacama Soils: Implications for the Cold-Dry Limits of Life on Earth.Microorganisms · 2020Article
- Pigment production by cold-adapted bacteria and fungi: colorful tale of cryosphere with wide range applications.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2020Review
- Cell-wall associated polysaccharide from the psychrotolerant bacterium Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4: isolation, purification and structural elucidation.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2020Article
- Survivability of Anhydrobiotic Cyanobacteria in Salty Ice: Implications for the Habitability of Icy Worlds.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Article
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Abstract
Inherent to sea ice, like other high latitude environments, is the strong seasonality driven by changes in insolation throughout the year. Sea-ice organisms are exposed to shifting, sometimes limiting, conditions of temperature and salinity. An array of adaptations to survive these and other challenges has been acquired by those organisms that inhabit the ice. One key adaptive response is the production of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), which play multiple roles in the entrapment, retention and survival of microorganisms in sea ice. In this concept paper we consider two main areas of sea-ice microbiology: the physico-chemical properties that define sea ice as a microbial habitat, imparting particular advantages and limits; and extracellular responses elicited in microbial inhabitants as they exploit or survive these conditions. Emphasis is placed on protective strategies used in the face of fluctuating and extreme environmental conditions in sea ice. Gaps in knowledge and testable hypotheses are identified for future research.
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