Differential diversity and function of microbial communities along a salinity gradient in ancient Siberian permafrost


Prof. Renxing Liang1, Maggie Lau2, Tatiana A Vishnivetskaya3, Karen G Lloyd4, Susan M Pfiffner5, Elizaveta Rivkina6 and Tullis C Onstott2, (1)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, United States, (2)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Microbiology, Knoxville, United States, (5)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (6)Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Pushchino, Russia