Modular community structure suggests metabolic plasticity during the transition to polar night in ice-covered Antarctic lakes

• Published in: The ISME Journal
• Main Authors: Vick-Majors, Trista J, Priscu, John C, A Amaral-Zettler, Linda
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2014
• Subjects: Original Article; Antarctic; Austral; Bonney; Fryxell; The Antarctic; Antarc*; polar night
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960534; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24152712; https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2013.190

High-latitude environments, such as the Antarctic McMurdo Dry Valley lakes, are subject to seasonally segregated light–dark cycles, which have important consequences for microbial diversity and function on an annual basis. Owing largely to the logistical difficulties of sampling polar environments d...