Taxonomic and functional diversity of soil and hypolithic microbial communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Sean Wei, Donnabella Castillo Lacap-Bugler, Maggie Lau, Tancredi Caruso, Subramanya Rao, Asuncion de los Rios, Stephen Archer, Jill Man-ying Chiu, Colleen Higgins, Joy Van Nostrand, Jizhong Zhou, David Hopkins, Steve Brian Pointing
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
• Subjects: Cyanobacteria; permafrost soils; Antarctica; GeoChip; hypolith; Dry Valleys; Microbiology; QR1-502; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Miers; Miers Valley; Antarc*; permafrost; polar desert
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01642; https://doaj.org/article/9fbd7d0bb6874c37bbe3b4e9487cafb6

The McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are an extreme polar desert. Mineral soils support subsurface microbial communities and translucent rocks support development of hypolithic communities on ventral surfaces in soil contact. Despite significant research attention relatively little is known about t...