High-throughput single-cell genome analysis of microbiomes in Mercer subglacial lake, Antarctica

Microorganisms inhabiting and evolving in aquatic ecosystems at the base of polar ice sheets subsist under energy-limited conditions while in relative isolation from surface gene pools and their common ancestral populations of origin. With the technical improvement, samples recently obtained from the base of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet allowed us to examine microbial genomes recovered from the Mercer Subglacial Lake ecosystem.