Soil Nematodes and Desiccation Survival in the Extreme Arid Environment of the Antarctic

• Main Authors: Dry Valleys, Amy M. Treonis, Diana H. Wall
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Taylor Valley; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.596.1504; http://icb.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/5/741.full.pdf

SYNOPSIS. Soil nematodes are capable of employing an anhydrobiotic survival strategy in response to adverse environmental conditions. The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica represent a unique environment for the study of anhydrobiosis because extremes of cold, salinity, and aridity combine to limit b...