supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40121101 and 40471025);the Key Project of Chinese Natural Science Foundation(Grant No.90102005);Initialitem of the Major Project of Ministry of Science and Technology of China for Fundamental Research(Grant No.2001CCB00300);Science and Technology Cooperation Project of Ministry of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.2001CB711001);the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KSCX2-SW-331).
Vertical distribution of the main bacteria isolated from the Muztagata ice core (about 22.4 m) was investigated by means of cultivation and 16S rRNA sequence analysis. The results showed that the amount of culturable ...