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Cell concentrations of microorganisms in glacial and lake ice of the Vostok ice core, East Antarctica

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  1. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Gatchina, Leningrad oblast, 188300, Russia

    S. A. Bulat & I. A. Alekhina

  2. Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, ul. Beringa 38, St.-Petersburg, 199397, Russia

    V. Ya. Lipenkov & V. V. Lukin

  3. CNRS Biological Station, F-29211, Roscoff, France

    D. Marie

  4. Laboratory of Glaciology and Geophysics of the Environment of CNRS, Grenoble, France

    J. R. Petit

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Bulat, I.A. Alekhina, V.Ya. Lipenkov, V.V. Lukin, D. Marie, J.R. Petit, 2009, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2009, Vol. 78, No. 6, pp. 850–852.

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Bulat, S.A., Alekhina, I.A., Lipenkov, V.Y. et al. Cell concentrations of microorganisms in glacial and lake ice of the Vostok ice core, East Antarctica. Microbiology 78, 808–810 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261709060216

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