Nearing the cold-arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica

• Published in: The ISME Journal
• Main Authors: Goordial, Jacqueline, Davila, Alfonso, Lacelle, Denis, Pollard, Wayne, Marinova, Margarita M, Greer, Charles W, DiRuggiero, Jocelyn, McKay, Christopher P, Whyte, Lyle G
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
• Subjects: Original Article; Arctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; University Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918446/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27323892; https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2015.239

Some of the coldest and driest permafrost soils on Earth are located in the high-elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) of Antarctica, but little is known about the permafrost microbial communities other than that microorganisms are present in these valleys. Here, we describe the microbiology and habi...