Bacterial and Archaeal Diversity in Sediments of West Lake Bonney, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Tang, Chao, Madigan, Michael T., Lanoil, Brian
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: American Society for Microbiology 2013
• Subjects: Microbial Ecology; Bonney; Lake Bonney; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568539; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23183970; https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02336-12

Bacterial and archaeal diversity was examined in a sediment core from Lake Bonney, Antarctica. Members of the Archaea showed both low abundance and diversity, whereas bacterial diversity was moderately high and some phyla were fairly abundant, even in geologically old samples. Microbial diversity co...