Scientists at the University of Bristol have revealed how a tiny Arctic microbe, crucial to shaping the surface of glaciers, survives in such extreme conditions. The cyanobacterium Phormidesmis Priestleyi BC1401 was isolated from cryoconite  on the Greenland Ice Sheet [Credit: Nathan Chrismas]For the first time, researchers at the Bristol Glaciology Centre sequenced the genome of Phormidesmis priestleyi, which belongs to the...

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