Use of Radiolabelled Thymidine and Leucine To Estimate Bacterial Production in Soils from Continental Antarctica

• Main Authors: Tibbles, B. J., Harris, J. M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Dronning Maud Land; Robertskollen; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1388784; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16535246

Tritiated thymidine incorporation (TTI) into DNA was used to examine bacterial production in two soil types from the Robertskollen group of nunataks in northwestern Dronning Maud Land, providing the first estimates of bacterial production in soil habitats on the Antarctic continent. Although estimat...