Prokaryotic Community Structure and Metabolisms in Shallow Subsurface of Atacama Desert Playas and Alluvial Fans After Heavy Rains: Repairing and Preparing for Next Dry Period

Prokaryotic Community Structure and Metabolisms in Shallow Subsurface of Atacama Desert Playas and Alluvial Fans After Heavy Rains: Repairing and Preparing for Next Dry Period

The Atacama Desert, the oldest and driest desert on Earth, displays significant rains only once per decade. To investigate how microbial communities take advantage of these sporadic wet events, we carried out a geomicrobiological study a few days after a heavy rain event in 2015. Different physicoch...

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Main Authors: Miguel Ángel Fernández-Martínez, Rita dos Santos Severino, Mercedes Moreno-Paz, Ignacio Gallardo-Carreño, Yolanda Blanco, Kimberley Warren-Rhodes, Miriam García-Villadangos, Marta Ruiz-Bermejo, Albert Barberán, David Wettergreen, Nathalie Cabrol, Víctor Parro
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
microbial ecology
Atacama Desert playa
rainfall event
subsurface environments
high-throughput DNA sequencing
metaproteomics
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01641/full

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