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

• Main Authors: Wei, Sean TS, Lacap-Bugler, Donnabella C, Lau, Maggie CY, Caruso, Tancredi, Rao, Subramanya, de Los Rios, Asunción, Archer, Stephen K, Chiu, Jill MY, Higgins, Colleen, Van Nostrand, Joy D, Zhou, Jizhong, Hopkins, David W, Pointing, Stephen B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Antarctica; Dry Valleys; Geochip; cyanobacteria; hypolith; soil; Microbiology; Environmental Science and Management; Soil Sciences; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Miers; Miers Valley; Antarc*; polar desert
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00n307tb

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...