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Scientists have found in Lake Vostok unidentifiable ...
Scientists have completed the study of water samples obtained in May 2012 from the Antarctic Lake Vostok, and found in it bacteria that can not be attributed to any known subkingdoms. "We have detected DNA of a bacterium that does not coincide with any of the known species in the world databases", - said the representative of the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics (PINP), "RIA Novosti".
"We call this life unidentifiable and ungraded. Ascribe it to some known subkingdoms bacteria failed, "- said of the Laboratory of Genetics of eukaryotes PINP Sergey Bulat.
Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica. It is under the ice sheet thickness of about 3500 m and has dimensions of approximately 250 × 50 km. Pressure of water in the lake, it is estimated that more than 300 atmospheres, the temperature of water - no less than 10 degrees Celsius in depth and 3, 2 degrees at the water - ice.
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"We call this life unidentifiable and ungraded. Ascribe it to some known subkingdoms bacteria failed, "- said of the Laboratory of Genetics of eukaryotes PINP Sergey Bulat.
Lake Vostok is the largest subglacial lake in Antarctica. It is under the ice sheet thickness of about 3500 m and has dimensions of approximately 250 × 50 km. Pressure of water in the lake, it is estimated that more than 300 atmospheres, the temperature of water - no less than 10 degrees Celsius in depth and 3, 2 degrees at the water - ice.
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