Endolithic microbial diversity in sandstone and granite from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Archer, Stephen D. J., Ríos, Asunción de los, Lee, Kevin C., Niederberger, Thomas S., Cary, S. Craig, Coyne, Kathryn J., Douglas, Susanne, Lacap-Bugler, Donnabella C., Pointing, Stephen B.
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2017
• Subjects: Cryptoendoliths; Chasmoendolith; Lichen; Cyanobacteria; Astrobiology; Antarctica; Madariaga; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/157986; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-016-2024-9; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329

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...