Lifting the veil on arid-to-hyperarid Antarctic soil microbiomes: a tale of two oases

• Published in: Microbiome
• Main Authors: Zhang, Eden, Thibaut, Loïc M., Terauds, Aleks, Raven, Mark, Tanaka, Mark M., van Dorst, Josie, Wong, Sin Yin, Crane, Sally, Ferrari, Belinda C.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2020
• Subjects: Research; Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Windmill Islands; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7076931/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32178729; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00809-w

BACKGROUND: Resident soil microbiota play key roles in sustaining the core ecosystem processes of terrestrial Antarctica, often involving unique taxa with novel functional traits. However, the full scope of biodiversity and the niche-neutral processes underlying these communities remain unclear. In...