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SUBMITTER: Wurzbacher C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5520041 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The ISME journal 20170421 8
In the transition zone of the shifting permafrost border, thaw ponds emerge as hotspots of microbial activity, processing the ancient carbon freed from the permafrost. We analyzed the microbial succession across a gradient of recently emerged to older ponds using three molecular markers: one universal, one bacterial and one fungal. Age was a major modulator of the microbial community of the thaw ponds. Surprisingly, typical freshwater taxa comprised only a small fraction of the community. Instea ...[more]