First evidence of microbial wood degradation in the coastal waters of the Antarctic

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Björdal, Charlotte G., Dayton, Paul K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Antarctic; McMurdo Station; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68613-y; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68613-y.pdf; http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68613-y

Abstract Wood submerged in saline and oxygenated marine waters worldwide is efficiently degraded by crustaceans and molluscs. Nevertheless, in the cold coastal waters of the Antarctic, these degraders seem to be absent and no evidence of other wood-degrading organisms has been reported so far. Here...