Scientists have revived a ‘zombie’ virus that spent 48,500 years frozen in permafrost
By Katie Hunt, CNN, March 8, 2023
The open access paper is:
Alempic, J.M., Lartigue, A., Goncharov, A.E., Grosse, G., Strauss, J., Tikhonov, A.N.,
Fedorov, A.N., Poirot, O., Legendre, M., Santini, S. and Abergel, C., 2023. An update
on eukaryotic viruses revived from ancient permafrost. Viruses, 15(2), p.564-570.
Another paper is:
Miner, K.R., D’Andrilli, J., Mackelprang, R., Edwards, A., Malaska, M.J., Waldrop,
M.P. and Miller, C.E., 2021. Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost
degradation. Nature Climate Change, 11(10), pp.809-819.
Yours,
Paul H.