Taxonomic and functional diversity of soil and hypolithic microbial communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

Taxonomic and functional diversity of soil and hypolithic microbial communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are an extreme polar desert. Mineral soils support subsurface microbial communities and translucent rocks support development of hypolithic communities on ventral surfaces in soil contact. Despite significant research attention relatively little is known about...

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Main Authors: Sean Wei, Donnabella Castillo Lacap-Bugler, Maggie Lau, Tancredi Caruso, Subramanya Rao, Asuncion de los Rios, Stephen Archer, Jill Man-ying Chiu, Colleen Higgins, Joy Van Nostrand, Jizhong Zhou, David Hopkins, Steve Brian Pointing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
Cyanobacteria
permafrost soils.
Antarctica
GeoChip
hypolith
Dry Valleys
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01642/full

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