Metagenomes from Late Pleistocene Ice Complex Sediments of the Siberian Arctic

Tatiana Vishnivetskaya; Elena Spirina; Lyubov Shmakova; Maria Tutukina; Zhou Li; Xiaofen Wu; Elizaveta Rivkina

doi:10.1128/MRA.01010-19

Metagenomes from Late Pleistocene Ice Complex Sediments of the Siberian Arctic

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 24;8(43):e01010-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01010-19.

Authors

Tatiana Vishnivetskaya^{1

2}, Elena Spirina³, Lyubov Shmakova³, Maria Tutukina⁴, Zhou Li^{2

5}, Xiaofen Wu², Elizaveta Rivkina¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia [email protected] [email protected].
² University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
³ Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
⁴ Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
⁵ Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA.

Abstract

The late Pleistocene Ice Complex (also known as Yedoma) encompasses ice-rich permafrost formed when alluvial and/or aeolian sediments accumulated under cold climatic conditions. Three metagenomes obtained from Yedoma deposits continually frozen for periods up to 60,000 years are reported here.