Endolithic microbial diversity in sandstone and granite from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Cryptic microbial communities develop within rocky substrates in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys as a stress avoidance strategy. They may be cryptoendolithic within pore spaces of weathered rocks, or develop in cracks and fissures as chasmoendolithic communities and are characterised by coloured ba...
Published in: | Polar Biology |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , |
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Springer
2017
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/157986 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-2024-9 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 |