Diverse metabolic and stress-tolerance pathways in chasmoendolithic and soil communities of Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Chan, Yuki, Fernandez-Martinez, Miguel Angel, Wei, Sean T S, Pointing, Stephen B., Zhou, Jizhong, Cary, S. Craig, Ganeshram, Annapoorna Maitrayee, Chiu, Jill M Y, de los Rios-Murillo, Asuncion, Van Nostrand, Joy D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Geochip; Stress response; Antarctica; Chasmoendolith; Dry Valleys; Antarctic; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Miers; Miers Valley; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-014-1598-3; http://hdl.handle.net/10722/236691

© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.The majority of biomass in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica occurs within rocks and soils, but despite the wealth of biodiversity data very little is known about the potential functionality of communities within these substrates. The putative physiologi...