Fatty acid composition and microbial activity of benthic marine sediment from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Letters
• Main Authors: Smith, Glen A., Nichols, Peter D., White, David C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 1986
• Subjects: Articles; Antarctic; Armitage; Cape Armitage; Cape Evans; East Sound; McMurdo Sound; New Harbor; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://femsec.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/2/4/219; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-6968.1986.tb01732.x

Signature lipids from the phospholipid esterlinked fatty acids (PELFA) of cell membranes were used to describe benthic microbial communities of 4 Antarctic sediments. Metabolic activities of the communities were determined by incorporation of [3H]thymidine into bacterial DNA and sodium [14C]acetate...