Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Soil and Hypolithic Microbial Communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Wei, ST, Lacap-Bugler, DC, Lau, MC, Caruso, T, Rao, S, de Los Rios, A, Archer, SK, Chiu, JM, Higgins, C, Van Nostrand, JD, Zhou, J, Hopkins, DW, Pointing, SB
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
• Subjects: Antarctica; Dry Valleys; Geochip; Cyanobacteria; Hypolith; Soil; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Miers; Miers Valley; Antarc*; polar desert
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10292/10733; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01642

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...