Microdiverse bacterial clades prevail across Antarctic wetlands

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Authors: Quiroga, María Victoria, Stegen, James C., Mataloni, Maria Gabriela, Cowan, Don, Lebre, Pedro H., Valverde, Angel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; HOMOGENEOUS SELECTION; MICRODIVERSITY; NULL MODELS; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Cierva; Cierva Point; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/220347

Antarctica's extreme environmental conditions impose selection pressures on microbial communities. Indeed, a previous study revealed that bacterial assemblages at the Cierva Point Wetland Complex (CPWC) are shaped by strong homogeneous selection. Yet which bacterial phylogenetic clades are shap...