Metagenomic Exploration of the Mono Lake Water Column: How Microbes Thrive despite High Salt and Arsenic Concentrations

John Tracey1, Kathryn Hobart2, Calvin Rusley1, Herdís Steinsdóttir3, Rachel Weisend4, Alexandra Atlee Phillips5, Daan R Speth5, Rafael Laso Perez6, Benjamin J Tully7, Larry Miller8, Woodward W Fischer5, Alex L Sessions5 and Victoria J Orphan5, (1)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Department of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, (4)Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States, (5)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany, (7)University of Southern California, Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)USGS MS/480, Menlo Park, CA, United States