Antarctic Relic Microbial Mat Community Revealed by Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics

Antarctic Relic Microbial Mat Community Revealed by Metagenomics and Metatranscriptomics

Buried upslope from the modern lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are relict lake deposits embedded in valley walls. Within these relict deposits, ancient microbial mats, or paleomats, have been preserved under extremely arid and cold conditions since the receding of larger paleolakes th...

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Main Authors: Elena Zaikova, David S. Goerlitz, Scott W. Tighe, Nicole Y. Wagner, Yu Bai, Brenda L. Hall, Julie G. Bevilacqua, Margaret M. Weng, Maya D. Samuels-Fair, Sarah Stewart Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Subjects:
Antarctica
cell survival
DNA repair
dormancy
extremophiles
metagenomics
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2019.00001/full

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https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2019.00001/full

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