ArticleThe New phytologist2019
Snow algae communities in Antarctica: metabolic and taxonomic composition.
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- Surface darkening by abundant and diverse algae on an Antarctic ice cap.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Snow alga Sanguina aurantia as revealed through de novo genome assembly and annotation.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Article
- Endometabolic profiling of pigmented glacier ice algae: the impact of sample processing.Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society · 2024Article
- TerrANTALife 1.0 Biodiversity data checklist of known Antarctic terrestrial and freshwater life forms.Biodiversity data journal · 2024Article
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- Novel insights in cryptic diversity of snow and glacier ice algae communities combining 18S rRNA gene and ITS2 amplicon sequencing.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- The snow alga Chloromonas kaweckae sp. nov. (Volvocales, Chlorophyta) causes green surface blooms in the high tatras (Slovakia) and tolerates high irradiance.Journal of phycology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Snow algae are found in snowfields across cold regions of the planet, forming highly visible red and green patches below and on the snow surface. In Antarctica, they contribute significantly to terrestrial net primary productivity due to the paucity of land plants, but our knowledge of these communities is limited. Here we provide the first description of the metabolic and species diversity of green and red snow algae communities from four locations in Ryder Bay (Adelaide Island, 68°S), Antarctic Peninsula. During the 2015 austral summer season, we collected samples to measure the metabolic composition of snow algae communities and determined the species composition of these communities using metabarcoding. Green communities were protein-rich, had a high chlorophyll content and contained many metabolites associated with nitrogen and amino acid metabolism. Red communities had a higher carotenoid content and contained more metabolites associated with carbohydrate and fatty acid metabolism. Chloromonas, Chlamydomonas and Chlorella were found in green blooms but only Chloromonas was detected in red blooms. Both communities also contained bacteria, protists and fungi. These data show the complexity and variation within snow algae communities in Antarctica and provide initial insights into the contribution they make to ecosystem functioning.
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