Evidence map›Paper›PMID 42164315›Full record

ArticleISME communications2026

Bipolar investigation of near-surface glacial ice reveals an active microbial ecosystem driven by photosynthesis and chemolithoautotrophy.

Brady R W O'Connor, Donovan Allen, Matthew Quinn, Melissa Kozey, Richard J Léveillé, Lyle G Whyte

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in ISME communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
0citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Brady R W O'ConnorDepartment of Natural Resource Sciences/McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1813-697X
Donovan AllenDepartment of Natural Resource Sciences/McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada.
Matthew QuinnDepartment of Natural Resource Sciences/McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada.
Melissa KozeyDepartment of Natural Resource Sciences/McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada.
Richard J LéveilléDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 845 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0G4, Canada.
Lyle G WhyteDepartment of Natural Resource Sciences/McGill Space Institute, McGill University, Macdonald Campus, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite extreme conditions including freezing temperatures, low water activity, and few nutrients, active microorganisms are thought to inhabit glacial ice, yet little is known about their identities and methods of survival. We used flow cytometry, cultivation, metagenomics, and metatranscriptomics to characterize viable and active microbial communities from near-surface englacial ice from White Glacier in the Canadian High Arctic and Johnsons Glacier on Livingston Island, Antarctica. The ice, though low in microbial biomass (10

Indexed as

AntarcticArcticastrobiologycryobiologyglacial microbiologyglaciersicemicrobial ecology

Identifiers

PMID42164315
PMCPMC13184969

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.