Glacial Legacies: Microbial Communities of Antarctic Refugia
SIMPLE SUMMARY: Microbial communities in Antarctica have only recently been described with the increasing popularity and ease of genome sequencing. Using these methods, we aimed to test hypotheses of refugia using microbial communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Refugia...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:9598129 2023-05-15T13:51:05+02:00 Glacial Legacies: Microbial Communities of Antarctic Refugia Jackson, Abigail C. Jorna, Jesse Chaston, John M. Adams, Byron J. 2022-10-01 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598129/ https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11101440 en eng MDPI http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9598129/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology11101440 © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). CC-BY Biology (Basel) Article Text 2022 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11101440 2022-10-30T00:55:14Z SIMPLE SUMMARY: Microbial communities in Antarctica have only recently been described with the increasing popularity and ease of genome sequencing. Using these methods, we aimed to test hypotheses of refugia using microbial communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Refugia are habitable areas that remain undisturbed during cycles of glacial expansions throughout Earth’s history. They may contain ancient lineages and unique communities worthy of conservation, as well as provide insight into the biotic history of Antarctica. We found unique microbial community assemblages from putative refugia in the McMurdo Dry Valleys indicating long-lived climax-communities in one of the harshest environments in the world. This finding corroborates the importance of glacial legacies in structuring not just the physical and geochemical environment, but also the soil microbial communities in this landscape. ABSTRACT: In the cold deserts of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) the suitability of soil for microbial life is determined by both contemporary processes and legacy effects. Climatic changes and accompanying glacial activity have caused local extinctions and lasting geochemical changes to parts of these soil ecosystems over several million years, while areas of refugia may have escaped these disturbances and existed under relatively stable conditions. This study describes the impact of historical glacial and lacustrine disturbance events on microbial communities across the MDV to investigate how this divergent disturbance history influenced the structuring of microbial communities across this otherwise very stable ecosystem. Soil bacterial communities from 17 sites representing either putative refugia or sites disturbed during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (22-17 kya) were characterized using 16 S metabarcoding. Regardless of geographic distance, several putative refugia sites at elevations above 600 m displayed highly similar microbial communities. At a regional scale, community composition was found ... Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica McMurdo Dry Valleys Victoria Land PubMed Central (PMC) Antarctic Kya ENVELOPE(8.308,8.308,63.772,63.772) McMurdo Dry Valleys Victoria Land Biology 11 10 1440 |
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SIMPLE SUMMARY: Microbial communities in Antarctica have only recently been described with the increasing popularity and ease of genome sequencing. Using these methods, we aimed to test hypotheses of refugia using microbial communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Refugia are habitable areas that remain undisturbed during cycles of glacial expansions throughout Earth’s history. They may contain ancient lineages and unique communities worthy of conservation, as well as provide insight into the biotic history of Antarctica. We found unique microbial community assemblages from putative refugia in the McMurdo Dry Valleys indicating long-lived climax-communities in one of the harshest environments in the world. This finding corroborates the importance of glacial legacies in structuring not just the physical and geochemical environment, but also the soil microbial communities in this landscape. ABSTRACT: In the cold deserts of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) the suitability of soil for microbial life is determined by both contemporary processes and legacy effects. Climatic changes and accompanying glacial activity have caused local extinctions and lasting geochemical changes to parts of these soil ecosystems over several million years, while areas of refugia may have escaped these disturbances and existed under relatively stable conditions. This study describes the impact of historical glacial and lacustrine disturbance events on microbial communities across the MDV to investigate how this divergent disturbance history influenced the structuring of microbial communities across this otherwise very stable ecosystem. Soil bacterial communities from 17 sites representing either putative refugia or sites disturbed during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) (22-17 kya) were characterized using 16 S metabarcoding. Regardless of geographic distance, several putative refugia sites at elevations above 600 m displayed highly similar microbial communities. At a regional scale, community composition was found ... |
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