Frozen Antarctic lakes yield new viruses


In the chilly depths of one of Antarctica's freshwater lakes, a surprising number of novel viruses thrive. Researchers braved frigid temperatures to collect water samples from Lake Limnopolar, located on Livingston Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, and sequenced the genomes of the collected species. The new genetic study reveals some 10,000 species of viruses from a dozen families.

Full article by Katherine Harmon on Scientific American

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