Metagenomes from Late Pleistocene Ice Complex Sediments of the Siberian Arctic.

Tatiana A VishnivetskayaElena SpirinaLyubov ShmakovaMaria TutukinaZhou LiXiaofen WuElizaveta Rivkina

Published in: Microbiology resource announcements (2019)

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.

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heavy metals
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climate change
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