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The subglacial lake "East" in Antarctica have found an unknown bacterium

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MOSCOW, Oct. 4 -. RIA Novosti is not known to science bacterium found in subglacial lake "East" in Antarctica, reported at the bottom of Science Head of Laboratory krioastrobiologii Peterburg University of Nuclear Physics named after Konstantinov Sergey Bulat.

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"In the frozen water in the drill bit was found absolutely no bacteria known to us, it is called" w123-10 ", - Bulat told reporters.

According to him, the bacterium has 86% genetic similarity with known organisms, which, from the point of view of genetics, it is enough to speak about her absolute uniqueness.

"East" - a lake in Antarctica, which lies at a depth of four kilometers beneath the ice. Its existence was proved in 1994. Lake is a significant scientific value due to the fact that is the only one of its kind terrestrial analogue under-ice oceans on ice moons of Jupiter (Europa, Ganymede, Callisto) and Saturn (Enceladus).