Environmental Factors Driving Spatial Heterogeneity in Desert Halophile Microbial Communities

Environmental Factors Driving Spatial Heterogeneity in Desert Halophile Microbial Communities

Spatial heterogeneity in microbial communities is observed in all natural ecosystems and can stem from both adaptations to local environmental conditions as well as stochastic processes. Extremophile microbial communities inhabiting evaporitic halite nodules (salt rocks) in the Atacama Desert, Chile...

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Main Authors: Gherman Uritskiy, Adam Munn, Micah Dailey, Diego R. Gelsinger, Samantha Getsin, Alfonso Davila, P. R. McCullough, James Taylor, Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
microbiome
extremophile
desert
heterogeneity
metagenome
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2020.578669/full

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