Unlocking the biosynthetic potential and taxonomy of the Antarctic microbiome along temporal and spatial gradients

• Published in: Microbiology Spectrum
• Main Authors: Medeiros, William, Hidalgo, Kelly, Leão, Tiago, de Carvalho, Lucas Miguel, Ziemert, Nadine, Oliveira, Valeria
• Other Authors: Leão, Pedro Nuno, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2024
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Deception Island; The Antarctic; Whalers Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00244-24; https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.00244-24

ABSTRACT Extreme environments, such as Antarctica, select microbial communities that display a range of evolutionary strategies to survive and thrive under harsh environmental conditions. These include a diversity of specialized metabolites, which have the potential to be a source for new natural pr...