Influence of the polar light cycle on seasonal dynamics of an Antarctic lake microbial community.

• Main Authors: Panwar, Pratibha, Allen, Michelle A, Williams, Timothy J, Hancock, Alyce M, Brazendale, Sarah, Bevington, James, Roux, Simon, Páez-Espino, David, Nayfach, Stephen, Berg, Maureen, Schulz, Frederik, Chen, I-Min A, Huntemann, Marcel, Shapiro, Nicole, Kyrpides, Nikos C, Woyke, Tanja, Eloe-Fadrosh, Emiley A, Cavicchioli, Ricardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2020
• Subjects: Ecosystem; Seasons; Photoperiod; Antarctic Regions; Aquatic Organisms; Lakes; Microbiota; Antarctic microbiology; Green sulfur bacteria; Host-virus interactions; Meromictic lake; Metagenome time series; Microbial food web; Phototroph; Polar light cycle; Ecology; Microbiology; Medical Microbiology; Ace Lake; Antarctic; East Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8z8188m1

BackgroundCold environments dominate the Earth's biosphere and microbial activity drives ecosystem processes thereby contributing greatly to global biogeochemical cycles. Polar environments differ to all other cold environments by experiencing 24-h sunlight in summer and no sunlight in winter....