The poles constitute 14% of the Earth's biosphere: The aquatic Arctic surrounded by land in
the north, and the frozen Antarctic continent surrounded by the Southern Ocean. In spite of …

Climate change is inducing wide-scale permafrost thaw in the Arctic and subarctic, triggering
concerns that long-dormant pathogens could reemerge from the thawing ground and initiate …

Abstract Background Climate change threatens Earth's ice-based ecosystems which
currently offer archives and eco-evolutionary experiments in the extreme. Arctic cryopeg …

Polar oceans and sea ice cover 15% of the Earth's ocean surface, and the environment is
changing rapidly at both poles. Improving knowledge on the interactions between the …

Phages are generally described as species specific or even strain specific, implying an
inherent limitation for some to be maintained and spread in diverse bacterial communities …

ABSTRACT Poly-3-hydroxyalkanoic acids (PHAs) are bacterial storage polymers commonly
used in bioplastic production. Halophilic bacteria are industrially interesting organisms, as …

Viruses are nonliving biological entities whose host range encompasses all known forms of
life. They are deceptively simple in description (a protein shell surrounding genetic material …

The sea ice spring bloom is crucial for sustaining Arctic marine food webs, with sea ice
algae serving as primary carbon sources for higher trophic levels. Despite the prevailing …

Researchers have recently renewed interest in bacteriophages. Being valuable models for
the study of eukaryotic viruses, and more importantly, natural killers of bacteria …

Cold-active bacteriophages are bacterial viruses that infect and replicate at low
temperatures (≤ 4° C). Understanding remains limited of how cold-active phage–host …