Not only may Lake Vostok may be inhabited with life, despite being cut off from the rest of the world for 15 million years, that life may be complex and diversified. As the geekosystem article reads.....
That latest search has proven much more fruitful. Of the 3,507 unique gene sequences found, 1,623 were identifiable by genus or even species. 94% of the identified RNA sequences were from bacteria, while the rest were from more complex eukaryotic organisms. Many of these were identified as fungi, but a few of them most closely matched animals: Some corresponding to insect-like springtails, crustaceans sometimes called water fleas, or tiny clam-like bivalves.
That latest search has proven much more fruitful. Of the 3,507 unique gene sequences found, 1,623 were identifiable by genus or even species. 94% of the identified RNA sequences were from bacteria, while the rest were from more complex eukaryotic organisms. Many of these were identified as fungi, but a few of them most closely matched animals: Some corresponding to insect-like springtails, crustaceans sometimes called water fleas, or tiny clam-like bivalves.
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