Ebook: Life in ancient ice

Based on a National Science Foundation-sponsored symposium organized by the editors in 2001, it comprises twenty chapters by internationally renowned scientists, including Russian experts whose decades of work has been rarely available in English."--Jacket.;Introduction / John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers -- Recommendations for elimination of contaminants and authentication of isolates in ancient ice cores / Scott O. Rogers [and others] -- Perennial Antarctic lake ice : a refuge for cyanobacteria in an extreme environment / John C. Priscu [and others] -- The growth of prokaryotes in Antarctic sea ice : implications for ancient ice communities / David S. Nichols -- Frozen in time : the diatom record in ice cores from remote drilling sites on the Antarctic ice sheets / Davida E. Kellogg and Thomas B. Kellogg -- The nature and likely sources of biogenic particles found in ancient ice from Antarctica / Raymond Sambrotto and Lloyd Burckle -- Microbial life below the freezing point within permafrost / Elizaveta Rivkina, Kayastas Laurinavichyus, and David A. Gilichinsky -- Yeasts isolated from ancient permafrost / Rushaniya N. Faizutdinova [and others] -- Fungi in ancient permafrost sediments of the Arctic and Antarctic regions / Nataliya E. Ivanushkina, Galina A. Kochkina, and Svetlana M. Ozerskaya -- Viable phototrophs : cyanobacteria and green algae from the permafrost darkness / Tatiana A. Vishnivetskaya [and others] -- The significance and implications of the discovery of filamentous fungi in glacial ice / Li-Jun Ma [and others] -- Yeasts in the genus Rhodotorula recovered from the Greenland ice sheet / William T. Starmer [and others] -- Plant and bacterial viruses in the Greenland ice sheet / John D. Castello [and others] -- Viral pathogens of humans likely to be preserved in natural ice / Dany Shoham -- Classification of bacteria from polar and nonpolar glacial ice / Brent C. Christner [and others] -- Common features of microorganisms in ancient layers of the Antarctic ice sheet / S.S. Abyzov [and others] -- Comparative biological analyses of accretion ice from subglacial Lake Vostok / Robin Bell [and others] -- Search for microbes and biogenic compounds in polar ice using fluorescence / Ryan Bay, Nathan Bramall, and P. Buford Price -- Living cells in permafrost as models for astrobiology research / Elena A. Vorobyova [and others] -- A synopsis of the past, an evaluation of the current, and a glance toward the future / John D. Castello and Scott O. Rogers.