Diversity of key genes for carbon and nitrogen fixation in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Tahon, Guillaume, Tytgat, Bjorn, Willems, Anne
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences; RIBULOSE 1; 5-BISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE/OXYGENASE; RIBOSOMAL-RNA; SEQUENCES; LARGE-SUBUNIT GENES; CYANOBACTERIAL DIVERSITY; AUTOTROPHIC; BACTERIA; CO2 FIXATION; DRY VALLEYS; CD-HIT; CYCLE; BIODIVERSITY; RuBisCO; Diazotrophy; Sequencing; Autotrophy; Community analysis; Antarctic; Calvin; East Antarctica; Sor Rondane Mountains; Sor-Rondane; Sør Rondane Mountains; Sør-Rondane; Antarc*; Antarctica; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8584251; http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8584251; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2353-y; https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8584251/file/8584259

Although Cyanobacteria are generally considered the most important primary producers and diazotrophs in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems, in several high-altitude Antarctic regions, they were previously reported to be relatively rare in some samples. In view of these observations, we investigated th...