Ace Lake
| Ace Lake | ||
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| Geographical location | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 28 ′ 19 ″ S , 78 ° 11 ′ 16 ″ E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 8.8 m | |
| Maximum depth | 9 m | |
The Ace Lake is a 9 m deep saltwater lake on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It is located on the Langnes Peninsula in the Vestfold Mountains near Organic Lake .
Australian biologists at Davis Station researched it in 1974 after spending nine months searching for a saltwater lake with a copepod population . They interpreted their discovery as a trump card (from English ace 'ace' ), from which the lake got its name. Between 2004 and 2005 a refuge was built on the shores of the lake .
In 2013, Zhou et al . a new suspected virophage species was discovered by metagenomal analysis , the “ Ace Lake Mavirus ” (ALM), similar to what had just happened in Organic Lake (OLV) and Yellowstone Lake (YSLV). ALM belongs to the virophage genus Mavirus ; as a virophage it is a satellite virus which (as a parasite ) in co-infection with a helper virus ( host virus ) impairs its ability to replicate. ALV is believed to parasitize species in the Mimiviridae virus family .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 4 (English)
Web links
- Ace Lake in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chaowen Gong, Weijia Zhang, Xuewen Zhou, Hongming Wang, Guowei Sun, Jinzhou Xiao, Yingjie Pan, Shuling Yan, Yongjie Wang: Novel Virophages detected in a Freshwater Lake in China . In: Front. Micribiol., January 22, 2016, doi: 10.3389 / fmicb.2016.00005 .
- ↑ J. Zhou, W. Zhang, S. Yan, J. Xiao, Y. Zhang, B. Li, Y. Pan, Y. Wang: Diversity of virophages in metagenomic data sets. In: Journal of Virology . Volume 87, number 8, April 2013, pp. 4225-4236, doi : 10.1128 / JVI.03398-12 , PMID 23408616 , PMC 3624350 (free full text).