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Lyle G. Whyte

Researcher at McGill University

Publications -  155
Citations -  8808

Lyle G. Whyte is an academic researcher from McGill University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Permafrost & Arctic. The author has an hindex of 44, co-authored 145 publications receiving 7678 citations. Previous affiliations of Lyle G. Whyte include National Research Council & Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

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Characterization of hydrocarbon-degrading microbial populations in contaminated and pristine Alpine soils

TL;DR: No correlation was found between the prevalence of hydrocarbon-degradative genotypes and biological activities (respiration, fluorescein diacetate hydrolysis, lipase activity) or numbers of culturable hydrocarbon -degrading soil microorganisms; there also was no correlation between the numbers of hydro carbon degraders and the contamination level.
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Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover

Jorge L. Vago, +67 more
- 01 Jul 2017 - 
TL;DR: The second ExoMars mission will be launched in 2020 to target an ancient location interpreted to have strong potential for past habitability and for preserving physical and chemical biosignatures (as well as abiotic/prebiotic organics).
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The functional potential of high Arctic permafrost revealed by metagenomic sequencing, qPCR and microarray analyses.

TL;DR: The detailed functional potential of permafrost-affected soils is described for the first time and key genes related to methane generation, methane oxidation and organic matter degradation were highly diverse for both samples in the metagenomic libraries and some showed relatively high abundance in qPCR assays.