Actinobacteria and cyanobacteria diversity in terrestrial Antarctic microenvironments evaluated by culture-dependent and independent methods

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Rego, Adriana, Raio, Francisco, Martins, Teresa P., Ribeiro, Hugo, Sousa, António G.G., Séneca, Joana, Baptista, Mafalda S., Lee, Charles K., Craig Cary, S., Ramos, Vitor, Carvalho, Maria F., Leão, Pedro N., Magalhães, Catarina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Actinobacteria; Antarctic microenvironments; Antarctic soil; Bacteria diversity; Bacterial cultivability; Cyanobacteria; Endolitic microbiota; Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Victoria Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/20099; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01018

Bacterial diversity from McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, the coldest desert on earth, has become more easily assessed with the development of High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) techniques. However, some of the diversity remains inaccessible by the power of sequencing. In this study, we combine cult...